{"id":48292,"date":"2026-10-17T14:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48292"},"modified":"2026-10-17T14:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:38:19","slug":"egypts-president-confirms-his-presidency-will-end-in-2030","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/egypts-president-confirms-his-presidency-will-end-in-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s President confirms his Presidency will end in 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said this Saturday that his presidential term would end in 2030 and \u200cthat the question of his departure from office was settled, reaffirming that Egypt&#8217;s constitution would not be amended.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said that the Egyptian constitution would not be touched,&#8221; he \u2060said. &#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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sisi, 71, is serving a six-year term after winning re-election in December 2023. Constitutional amendments approved in a 2019 referendum extended presidential terms to six years \u200cfrom \u2060four and allowed Sisi to seek a third term, clearing the way for him to remain in office until 2030.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A former general, Sisi rose \u2060to power in 2013 by toppling Egypt&#8217;s first democratically elected President, Mohamed Mursi, after mass protests against his \u2060rule.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks on Saturday while attending a graduation ceremony for new classes \u2060at the Egyptian Military Academy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48293,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-48292","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Egypt President El-Sisi confirms departure from office at end of current term in 2030","published_date":"2026-10-17 13:53:37","news_description":"Egypt President El-Sisi confirms departure from office at end of current term in 2030","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48295,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48292\/revisions\/48295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}