Saturday, 27/08/2016 09:09 (GMT+7)
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has announced that he would run for a second presidential term in 2018 if the Egyptian people want him to.
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi (Source: AFP/VNA)
“I can never not respond to the will of Egyptians. I’m under the will of the Egyptian people, and if it is their will that I run for Presidency again, I will,” the president declared.
The Egyptian Constitution permits presidents to serve two consecutive terms before stepping down, with most people expecting that Sisi will seek a second term.
Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, born in 1954, is the sixth and incumbent President of Egypt in office since June 2014.
Sisi was born in Cairo and after joining the military, held a post in Saudi Arabia before enrolling in the Egyptian Army's Command and Staff College. In 1992, Sisi trained at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in the United Kingdom, and then in 2006 trained at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Sisi served as a mechanized infantry commander and then as directory of military intelligence. After the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and election of Mohamed Morsi to the Egyptian Presidency, Sisi was named head of the armed forces./.
Compiled by BTA