{"id":7306,"date":"2011-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/amended-amendments-to-the-egyptian-constitution-to-set-high-citizenship-requirements-for-the-president-pass\/?lang=fr"},"modified":"2011-03-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T00:00:00","slug":"amended-amendments-to-the-egyptian-constitution-to-set-high-citizenship-requirements-for-the-president-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/amended-amendments-to-the-egyptian-constitution-to-set-high-citizenship-requirements-for-the-president-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Amended amendments to the Egyptian Constitution to set high citizenship requirements for the President pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eudo-citizenship.eu\/people\/273-parolin-gianluca\">Gianluca Parolin<\/a>, American University in Cairo<\/p>\n<p>When Egyptian voters entered the polling stations on 19 March 2011, they found on the ballot a different text of the proposed amendments previously announced by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on 27 February 2011. Informed decision was clearly not the top priority.<\/p>\n<p>An overwhelming majority of 77% (nationwide) voted in favor of the amendments in a bundled vote on the entire block of the amendments. The absence of a minimum voter turnout made the referendum pass, even with an estimated record-high-but-democratically-low 41% turnout.<\/p>\n<p>The text of article 75 now requires the Presidential candidate and his parents never to have carried (!) a foreign citizenship, and not to be married to a non-Egyptian (!!). The exclamation marks are intended to highlight where the differences with the previous text of the proposed amendments lay. The differences with the pre-11 February 2011 Constitution were already explored in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eudo-citizenship.eu\/citizenship-news\/450-proposed-amendments-to-the-egyptian-constitution-to-set-high-citizenship-requirements-for-the-president-and-ignore-external-voting\">my previous news post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read further on EUDO Citizenship Observatory website:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eudo-citizenship.eu\/news\/citizenship-news\/454-amended-amendments-to-the-egyptian-constitution-to-set-high-citizenship-requirements-for-the-president-pass\">http:\/\/eudo-citizenship.eu\/news\/citizenship-news\/454-amended-amendments-to-the-egyptian-constitution-to-set-high-citizenship-requirements-for-the-president-pass<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert\u00a0Gianluca Parolin, American University in Cairo When Egyptian voters entered the polling stations on 19 March 2011, they found on the ballot a different text of the proposed amendments previously announced by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on 27 February 2011. Informed decision was clearly not the top priority. An [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-afrique-du-nord","region-egypte","type-messages-blog","item-year-489","item-theme-nationalite-des-politiciens","item-theme-nationalite-et-elections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}