Constitution amended to remove age limit for presidency
An age limit of 65 years for presidential candidates was scrapped.
29 Nov 2018, 9:00 AM
A constitutional amendment was passed Wednesday night to reverse changes that imposed an age limit of 65 years for presidential candidates.
A bill proposed by MP Ali Arif from the former ruling party was passed unanimously with 72 votes in favour, well above the three-quarters majority required to amend the constitution.
Article 109(c) on the qualifications for election as president was changed to state that candidates must be “at least 35 years of age.”
In the first amendment brought to the constitution since it was adopted in August 2008, the article was revised in June 2015 to set an age limit of between 30 to 65 years.
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