# Referendum approves amendments resetting Sisi’s term clock toward 2030 Date: 2019 ## The fact On 20–22 April 2019 Egypt held a referendum on constitutional amendments. The National Election Authority recorded 88.8 percent yes and 44.3 percent turnout. The package extends presidential terms from four to six years, extends [Sisi](/people/abdel-fattah-el-sisi)’s then-current term, and allows a further term toward 2030, while expanding presidential power over judicial appointments and the military’s constitutional role. ## Context Parliament had passed the amendments on 16 April 2019 (531 of 596). He did not need to author every clause to benefit from the transitional article. Turnout and yes-share are NEA figures. 16 April parliamentary vote; 20–22 April referendum; 23–24 April NEA announcement. Stored as one April 2019 Fact. Keep Referendum approves amendments resetting Sisi’s term clock toward 2030 on 2019-04-23 separate from neighbouring coup, Rab’a, referendum, and 2023-return instruments. The president of Egypt is head of state and supreme commander. In 2013 he was defence minister and deputy prime minister for security. He can announce an ouster, command a dispersal, and accept an NEA return. He does not write an HRW investigation, an IMF board minute, or a unique Rab’a integer invented here. ## Evidence and sources Ahram Online carries the official instrument or communique. BBC News records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is electoral integrity: a completed term-clock reset toward 2030. ## What is established and what is not Established: NEA recorded 88.8 percent yes and 44.3 percent turnout. The amendments extend terms to six years and allow a further Sisi term toward 2030. Not established: A unique later GDP coefficient from the reset, or that 88.8 percent is an ODIHR competitive finding. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Parliament voted. NEA tabulated. Sharing tabulation is not a reason to drop the reset.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Referendum approves amendments resetting Sisi’s term clock toward 2030, not a later speech about Referendum approves amendments resetting Sisi’s term clock toward 2030. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Referendum approves amendments resetting Sisi’s term clock toward 2030 on 2019-04-23 is not a licence to treat every later Ahram Online communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Referendum approves amendments resetting Sisi’s term clock toward 2030 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He is the incumbent who gained the extra term. Parliament voted. NEA tabulated. Sharing tabulation is not a reason to drop the reset. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Abdel Fattah el-Sisi: https://factrail.ai/people/abdel-fattah-el-sisi ## Drivers - Sisi post-2013 military presidency: https://factrail.ai/drivers/sisi-post-2013-military-presidency - Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness ## Sources - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48035512 - https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/330131.aspx ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/eg-sisi-constitution-2019