Could the House of Representatives really postpone next year’s presidential poll?

Could the House of Representatives really postpone next year’s presidential poll? A proposal to extend President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s term to six years from four via amendments to the constitution appears to be gaining traction in the House of Representatives, after the majority Free Egyptians Party publicly endorsed it, Al Shorouk reports. The news raises the specter of the House pushing the idea when it gets back to business in September. As we noted yesterday, the idea of extending the president’s term has already been dismissed by none other than Amr Moussa, the former foreign minister who led the drafting of the current (2014) constitution.