(MENAFN) An Egyptian MP started collecting signatures on Sunday for a motion to extend presidential terms and lift restrictions on re-election, a year before general-turned-president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's first term is due to expire.
The move by independent MP Ismail Nasreddine to amend article 140 of the constitution would, if successful, enable Sisi to stay in power longer than the two four-year terms currently permitted.
The process is still at an early stage. Nasreddine will need the support of 20 percent of MPs to table a discussion on the issue in parliament.
"It will be the right of the president to nominate himself for the office as he wishes ... and the right of the people to choose him or reject him," Nasreddine told reporters, adding that he would begin putting the idea to lawmakers on Sunday.
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