Amendments to the Egyptian Constitution

According to al-Shorouk newspaper, these are the important amendments that the people will vote one in the incoming weeks, Ill quote the original articles and summarize the amendment in voting:

Original:

Art.76: The People’s Assembly shall nominate the President of the Republic . The nomination shall be referred to the people for a plebiscite. The nomination for the President of the Republic shall be made in the People’ Assembly upon the proposal of at least one third of its members. The candidate who obtains two thirds of the votes of the members of the People’s Assembly shall be referred to the people for a plebiscite . If he does not obtain the said majority the nomination process shall be repeated two days after the first vote. The candidate obtaining an absolute majority of the votes of the Assembly members shall be referred to the citizens for a plebiscite. The candidate shall be considered President of the Republic when he obtains an absolute majority of votes cast in the plebiscite. If the candidate does not obtain this majority, the Assembly shall propose the nomination of another candidate and the same procedure shall follow concerning his candidature and election.

Amendment: Independent election runners are allowed to run in the elections as long as they get 30 thousand signatures in nominating him from Egyptians whom have to come from 12 different governates OR he gets 150 acceptances in the People's Parliament and Shura.

Every political party could nominate a person for the election.

Original:

Art.93: The People’s Assembly shall be competent to decide upon the validity of the membership of its members. The Court of Cassation shall be competent to investigate the validity of contestations on membership presented to the Assembly after referring them to the Court by the Speaker of the Assembly. The contestation shall be referred to the Court of Cassation within fifteen days as from the date on which the Assembly has been informed thereof while the investigation shall be completed within ninety days from the date on which the contestation is referred to the Court of Cassation. The result of the investigation and the decision reached by the Court shall be submitted to the Assembly to decide upon the validity of the contestation within sixty days from the date of submission of the result of the investigation to the Assembly. Memberships shall not be deemed invalid expect by a decision taken by a majority of two-thirds of the Assembly members.

Amendment: The People's Assembly no longer decides the validity of the membership of its members. That role is completely transferred to the court. Whatever the court decides upon will go.

Original:

Art.189: The President of the Republic as well as the People’s Assembly may request the amendment of one or more of the articles of the Constitution. The articles to be amended and the reasons justifying such amendments shall be mentioned in the request for amendment . If the request emanates from the People’s Assembly, it should be signed by at least one third of the Assembly members . In all cases, the Assembly shall discuss the amendment in principle, and the decision in this respect shall be taken by the majority of its members. If the request is rejected, the amendment of the same particular articles may not be requested again before the expiration of one year from the date of such rejection. If the People’s Assembly approves an amendment, in principle, the articles requested to be amended shall be discussed two months after the date of the said approval. If the amendment is approved by two thirds of the members of the Assembly, it shall be referred to the people for a plebiscite. If it is approved by the people it shall be considered in force from the date of the announcement of the result of the plebiscite.

Don't really understand the amendment for this one...will update later.

Original:

Art.148: The President of the Republic shall proclaim a state of emergency in the manner prescribed by the law. Such proclamation must be submitted to the People’s Assembly within the subsequent fifteen days to take a decision upon it. In case the People’s Assembly, is dissolved the matter shall be submitted to the new Assembly at its first meeting. The state of emergency in all cases, shall be for a limited period, which may not be extended unless by approval of the Assembly.

Amendment: The Emergency State shall be for only 6 months by a request from the president of the republic, after the Parliament and Ministers agree with him. Renewal of the Emergency State will require a general public vote.

Original:

Art.151: The President of the Republic shall conclude treaties and communicate them to the People’s Assembly, accompanied with suitable clarifications. They shall have the force of law after their conclusion, ratification and publication according to the established procedure. However, peace treaties, alliance pacts, commercial and maritime treaties and all other treaties involving modifications in the territory of the State or having connection with the rights of sovereignty, or which lay upon the treasury of the State certain charges not included in the budget, must acquire the approval of the People’s Assembly.

Amendment: Not all treaties shall be made except after a referendum by the People's assembly and will be enforced as a law after ratification.

Original:

Art.88: The Law shall determine the conditions which members of the Assembly must fulfil as well as the rules of election and referendum, while the ballot shall be conducted under the supervision of the members of a judiciary organ.

Amendment: A judicial commission which is composed of judges only (members of the Constitutional Courts Supreme Cassation and Appeal and the State Council) will oversee the elections, including declaring starting date of the nomination and declaring the results of the elections, which is regulated by law, and shall be an administrative subject to appeal before the administrative judiciary.

General Committees are formed at the level of the electoral districts of the judges of the podium as well.

The sub-committees with members of other judicial bodies. such as the State Litigation Authority and the Administrative Prosecution, can be used in helping to supervise.

Original:

Art.77: The term of the presidency shall be six Gregorian years starting from the date of the announcement of result of the plebiscite. The President of the Republic may be re-elected for other successive terms.

Amendment: The term of the presidency shall be four Gregorian years starting from the date of the announcement of result of the plebiscite. The President of the Republic may be re-elected for another one time only.

Original:

Art.190: The term of the present President of the Republic shall be terminated at the end of six years from the date of announcing his election as President of the Arab Republic of Egypt.

Amendment: The term of the present President of the Republic shall be terminated at the end of four years from the date of announcing his election as President of the Arab Republic of Egypt.

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