Supporters of Egyptian president Abdelfattah al-Sisi has begun to fight for their leaders to be able to be re-elected once again. The country’s constitution allows in the day, however, not this, but sets a limit of two consecutive terms.

previously described how president al-Sisi has a tight grip on Egypt and how he, in 2018, won the presidential elections in the country by a large majority. At the same time, the choice was according to many analysts decided in advance – despite the fact that al-Sisi in all the cases in the paper had a candidate in the election.

The former commander-in-chief who helped to take power from the islamistiske president Mohammed Morsi in 2013 was elected then yourself to president of the country. In last year’s elections, he won with 97 percent of the votes. But in the context of his current term ends in 2022, he can, under the current constitution cannot be elected president even once.

published in the loyalist newspaper al-Akhbar highlighted the issue on Sunday on changing the constitution to make it possible to still retain al-Sisi as president, reports the AFP news agency. The premise would be that he once again would win the presidential election.

Tidningschefen Yasser Rizk was the one who was behind it, published the leader, and he claims that such a political reform would make ”the people’s gains in terms of security, stability and economic growth” could be preserved.