that ultimately this is going to be approved it's going to be ratified even when it goes to the shura council i mean i've been saying for months including on al jazeera that this will pass it will be a landslide this is similar to the previous votes that have been held under sisi he won the presidential election with almost ninety eight percent of the vote the previous referendum that was held under him passed with i think ninety six percent of the vote so he's having to get back to this though i mean it sounds like the country is taking another major step back towards law. strongman rule backed by the military was that the whole revolution against mubarak was about yeah that's a good question how did we get here while we got here because the egyptian military and the rest of the deep state learned a very important lesson from the arab spring from the revolutionary revolutionary protest movement and that is that they actually had to be considerably more repressive than the previous mubarak regime they don't want to allow even you know a small chance for another kind of popular uprising that's

and it's expected to pass if it does the amendments will go to the upper house of parliament the shura councilfor approval earlier i spoke to one hundred three associate professor at the dar institute for graduate studies he says with no independent election monitors the vote could be easily rigged. i think you have to take votes that are held in military dictatorships with several grains of salt egypt has completely eliminated opposition it's an environment of repression and fear people are terrified to to to vote to express dissent just in this in the lead up to this vote more than one hundred twenty people have been arrested for campaigning for the for the no vote so i think we'll have to take these results with a grain of salt or several grains of salt as it were we also have to remember that there are no independent independent election monitors so the government is free to rig the results as they've done as they've done in the past if sisi were you know a genuinely interested in a sort of referendum on his popularity he'd hold a free and a truly free and fair vote or he'd open the countr

starting on saturday and if it passes the amendments will go to the upper house of parliament the shura council for final approval the amendments are being widely condemned as a step towards more autocracy under sisi. as more. president i'll deliver to has sisi was sworn in last year after winning his second term in office the vote was marred by claims of irregularities a crackdown on activists and potential challengers a few months earlier sisi had said he would not seek a third term but the egyptian leader seems to have changed his mind beginning on saturday voters will take part in a referendum that could extend cc's term in office by two years and allow him to stand for another six year mandate effectively keeping him in office until twenty thirty the movie's a departure from the two thousand and eleven constitutional declaration that limits presidents to two four year terms egypt has completely eliminated opposition it's an environment of repression and fear people are terrified to to to vote to express dissent just in this in the lead up to this vote more than one hundred twenty people ha

starting on saturday and if it passes the amendments will go to the upper house of parliament the shura council for final approval what are sure is the director of the studies security studies program at the institute for graduate studies he says the result of the referendum is virtually guaranteed. far away from the moxie in action this is probably the result is we really know it probably would be in the range of the ninety seven percent because somehow that that kept that particular figure kept on repeating itself in presidential elections first time twenty fourteen second time for india eighteen and then also the five hundred over five hundred m.p.'s approved approved the these amendments it was also ninety seven percent only twenty two out of five hundred ninety six dejected. so it's a foregone result it's being done in. the scenes international called it the worst wave of oppression in crackdown in egypt egypt in modern history. so we're seeing pretty much a foregone result a election from them that will not treat the make affect the realities on the ground. well to afghanistan now where a

starting on saturday and if it passes the amendments will go to the upper house of parliament the shura council for final approval well the amendments are widely described as a step towards more autocracy and sisi. begins our coverage. president i'll deliver to has sisi was sworn in last year after winning his second term in office the vote was marred by claims of irregularities a crackdown on activists and potential challengers a few months earlier sisi had said he would not seek a third term but the egyptian leader seems to have changed his mind beginning on saturday voters will take part. in a referendum that could extend cc's term in office by two years and allow him to stand for another six year mandate effectively keeping him in office until twenty thirty the movie's a departure from the two thousand and eleven constitutional declaration that limits presidents to two four year terms egypt has completely eliminated opposition it's an environment of repression and fear people are terrified to to to vote to express dissent just in this in the lead up to this vote more than one hundred twenty

and is expected to pass if it does the amendments will go to the upper house of parliament the shura council for approval well earlier i spoke to one of the must see an associate professor at the institute for graduate studies he says with no independent election monitors the vote could easily be raped. i think you have to take votes that are held in military dictatorships with several grains of salt egypt has completely eliminated opposition it's an environment of repression and fear people are terrified to to to vote to express dissent just in this in the lead up to this vote more than one hundred twenty people have been arrested for campaigning for the for the no vote so i think we'll have to take these results with a grain of salt or several grains of salt as it were we also have to remember that there are no independent independent election monitors so the government is free to rig the results as they've done as they've done in the past if c.c. were you know a genuinely interested in a sort of referendum on his popularity he'd hold a free and for a truly free and fair vote or he'd open

starts on saturday and if it passes the amendments will go to the upper house of parliament the shura councilfor final approval joining us today is sure he joins us here in the studio in doha he's the director of the security studies program at the doha institute for graduate studies omar welcome back to the news hour is this democracy in action or an awful experience charter. far away from the moccasin action this is probably the result is we already know it probably would be in the range of the ninety seven percent because somehow that kept that particular figure kept on repeating itself in presidential elections first time twenty fourteen second time twenty eighteen and then also the five hundred over five hundred m.p.'s approved approved the these amendments was also ninety seven percent only twenty two out of five hundred ninety six injected. so it's a foregone result it's being done in. the scenes of international called it the worst wave of repression and crackdown in egypt egypt modern history. so we're seeing pretty much a foregone result a election on them that will not make affect

concerns were because of security according to the authorities yesterday on saturday they had their shura council meeting and protesters who regard the popular congress party as remnants of the former government because they were allies of president bashir and his government so protesters attacked the members of the political bureau of the popular congress party yesterday and they had to be removed taken or evacuated from their meeting with help from security and soldiers so there are concerns that those two more that wanted that the popular congress party who wanted to organize will cause violence between the protesters who are in front of the army headquarters and popular congress party supporters so security authorities have rejected that but it's not clear yet if the popular congress party will give it a go regardless of rejection from security authorities or not thank you. we'll have as mohammed is a civil society activist and director of justice africa that's a human rights advocacy group he says sudan shouldn't rush to hold elections. i think the main reason why democracy fell in from octo