In pics: Sisi casts vote in referendum on constitutional amendments

CAIRO - 20 April 2019: President Abdel Fatal al-Sisi has cast his vote Saturday in the referendum on a set of proposed constitutional amendments on the first voting day in Egypt.

TV channels broadcast President Sisi while he was casting the ballot at the El-Shaheed Yousry Emara School in Heliopolis, Cairo. The polling stations across Egypt are set to open at 9 a.m., where queues of voters are allowed to cast their ballots.


President Abdel Fatal al-Sisi has cast his vote Saturday in the referendum on a set of proposed constitutional amendments on the first voting day in Egypt - TV Screenshot

Egyptian expatriates have started voting in the referendum process on Friday, and will continue until Sunday.

A number of consulates have opened their doors Saturday; the first embassies to open were in New Zealand and Australia.


President Abdel Fatal al-Sisi has cast his vote Saturday in the referendum on a set of proposed constitutional amendments on the first voting day in Egypt - TV Screenshot

A total of 61 million eligible voters were called for casting their ballots in the public referendum on the constitutional amendments.

Egyptian expatriates started a three-day voting on the new constitutional amendments in 140 embassies and consulates of 125 countries worldwide, amid massive campaigning for the amendments abroad and domestically.

“The referendum on constitutional amendments will be completely supervised by the judiciary,” said Judge Lasheen Ibrahim, head of the National Election Authority, at a press conference held at the headquarters of the State Information Service in Cairo’s Nasser City district. “There will be a judge at every ballot box. The media and civil society will be able to follow the process.”