Critics fear the move will cement his authoritarian rule eight years after a pro-democracy uprising.
Voters in Egypt approved constitutional amendments allowing President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to remain in power until 2030, election officials said Tuesday, a move that critics fear will cement his authoritarian rule eight years after a pro-democracy uprising.
Pro-government media, business people and lawmakers had pushed for a"Yes" vote and a high turnout, with many offering free rides and food handouts to voters, while authorities threatened to fine anyone boycotting the three-day referendum. Hassan Nafaa, a political science professor at Cairo University, said the results were expected."There will be dangerous repercussion from the ruling regime as we will see more repression and restrictive policies," he said.
El-Sissi was elected president in 2014 and re-elected last year after all potentially serious challengers were jailed or pressured to exit the race. In Cairo's central Tahrir Square, where mass protests became the symbol of the 2011 anti-Mubarak uprising and of hopes for democratic change in Egypt, the posters urged people to vote in the referendum.
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