At a general session, Egypt\u2019s House of Representatives is discussing the newly proposed amendments to the 2014 constitution. <\/p>\n
As per the constitutional amendments, the presidential term would be extended for 6 years instead of 4 years and heads of the judicial bodies would be appointed by the president. <\/p>\n
The new amendments also call for allocating 25 percent of the Parliament seats for women. Other judiciary officials asked for extending the presidency of the judicial bodies for 6 years instead of 4 years. <\/p>\n
One fifth of parliament members submitted a proposal to conduct constitutional amendments in line with Article 226 of the constitution and Article 140 of Parliament\u2019s internal by-laws. They asked for extending the presidential term to six years from four, \u201cas the current circumstances have proven the step essential,\u201d according to a statement issued by the Parliament on February 3, 2019. The amendments also tackle appointing the heads of judicial bodies by the president. <\/p>\n
Egypt Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At a general session, Egypt\u2019s House of Representatives is discussing the newly proposed amendments to the 2014 constitution. As per the constitutional amendments, the presidential term would be extended for 6 years instead of 4 years and heads of the judicial bodies would be appointed by the president. The new amendments also call for allocating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":128655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7863],"tags":[45947,2484,10138],"class_list":["post-128654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-section","tag-constitutional-amendments","tag-egypt","tag-parliament"],"yoast_head":"\n