Members of Sudan’s parliament handed over the Speaker a memorandum calling for constitutional amendments that would enable President Omar al-Bashir and other "heads of state" to serve for an unlimited presidential term. A number of 294 representing 33 political parties handed the Speaker a memorandum calling for the amendment of Articles 57-178 of the Sudanese constitution concerning the presidential session and the president’s authority to remove governors. If amendments were approved, Article 57 will extend term limits and allow the president to run for another presidential term. The article was limited to two presidential terms of five years each, which would make the re-nomination of incumbent President for a third session a violation of the constitution. The President’s current term ends in 2020 after he was elected for two terms in 2010 and then in 2015. The amendment of Article 178 pertaining to the “selection of governors” discusses giving the president power to dismiss the governor. The parliament passed a law last month to assign governors through direct elections after the former law gave the president the power to appoint them. Parliament Speaker Ibrahim Ahmed Omar said he received a letter signed by a majority of lawmakers backing an amendment that would extend the limit. "Today I received a memorandum from 33 parties representing 294 deputies to amend the constitution with regard to the number of times the presidents candidacy is allowed," he told reporters. "I will abide by the constitutional and legal steps and the regulations necessary to discuss these amendments in parliament for it to take any decision on them,” he asserted. The Speaker added that both Articles have a clear impact on governance in Sudan, so it is necessary to amend the Constitution. He addressed the members of the parliament saying they did the right move and took the correct procedural path. MP Abdullah Masar explained that the parliamentarians saw the need to amend the constitution due to Sudan’s troubling situation. He added that the amendment was suggested to provide an opportunity for maintaining stability in the country. Concerning Article 178, Masar stated that the amendments allow the President to sack the elected governors of states if they violated the laws. MP Ali Hussein Dosa indicated that the determination of presidency term is derived from the constitutions of other countries, which he believes doesnt suit Sudan. Dosa continued: “If we read our history and the cases of some great nations, or consider the Islamic history, we will not find a limitation for the presidency term. We will fight to include this text in the next constitution.”