{"id":326616,"date":"2011-03-21T11:45:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T11:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/21\/egypt-referendum-strongly-backs-constitutional-changes\/"},"modified":"2011-03-21T11:45:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T11:45:57","slug":"egypt-referendum-strongly-backs-constitutional-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/egypt-referendum-strongly-backs-constitutional-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Referendum Strongly Backs Constitutional Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"30.9161406673\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/7305b8cerfi-logo-en.jpg\" alt=\"Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>21 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Egyptians have voted overwhelmingly in favour of constitutional reforms which will allow the country to move quickly to elections, according to official results released Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Just over 77 per cent of voters in Saturday\u2019s referendum [1] endorsed nine amendments including the reduction of presidential terms from six to four years and the introduction of a limit of two presidential terms.<\/p>\n<p>Another amendment restores full judicial supervision of the electoral process, which was scrapped in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 18 million Egyptians went to the polls [2] on Saturday, a 41 per cent turnout. For many Egyptians Saturday was the first time they had ever voted.<\/p>\n<p>Under former President Hosni Mubarak [3] elections were fraud-plagued, stage-managed affairs with turnout as low as 10 per cent on some occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential candidates Mohammed El Baradei and Amr Moussa called for voters to oppose the changes, saying they did not go far enough.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103210740.html\" title=\"Egypt: Referendum Strongly Backs Constitutional Changes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Egypt: Referendum Strongly Backs Constitutional Changes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 21 March 2011 Egyptians have voted overwhelmingly in favour of constitutional reforms which will allow the country to move quickly to elections, according to official results released Sunday evening. Just over 77 per cent of voters in Saturday\u2019s referendum [1] endorsed nine amendments including the reduction of presidential terms from six to four years and the introduction of a limit of two presidential terms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Egypt: Referendum Strongly Backs Constitutional Changes - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/egypt-referendum-strongly-backs-constitutional-changes\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Egypt: Referendum Strongly Backs Constitutional Changes - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"21 March 2011 Egyptians have voted overwhelmingly in favour of constitutional reforms which will allow the country to move quickly to elections, according to official results released Sunday evening. 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