{"id":649240,"date":"2026-10-17T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/649240\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:50:10","slug":"egyptian-president-abdel-fattah-al-sisi-says-his-presidency-will-end-in-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/649240\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi says his presidency will end in 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian President<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-911917\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi<\/a> said on Saturday that his presidential term would end in 2030 and that the question of his departure from office was settled, reaffirming that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-911711\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Egypt&#8217;s<\/a> constitution would not be amended.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said that the Egyptian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-election-2026\/article-911475\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">constitution<\/a> would not be touched,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is an entirely settled matter and will not be discussed,&#8221; he added, referring to the end of his current term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Sisi, 71, is serving a six-year term after winning re-election in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Constitutional amendments approved in a 2019 referendum extended presidential terms from four to six years and allowed Sisi to seek a third term, clearing the way for him to remain in office until 2030.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A former general, Sisi rose to power in 2013 by toppling Egypt&#8217;s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Mursi, after mass protests against his rule.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks on Saturday while attending a graduation ceremony for new classes at the Egyptian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-911965\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Military<\/a> Academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said on Saturday that his presidential term would end in 2030 and that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21869,5543,42,47,43,4525,291926,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-649240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cairo","tag-egypt","tag-headlines","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-president","tag-sisi-egypt","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}