Sudanese MPs have backed a move to amend the constitution to allow President Omar al-Bashir to run for a third term in the 2020 election.
Unless the constitution is changed, Mr Bashir, who came to power in a coup in 1989, will not be allowed to stand again as a two-term limit was introduced in 2005.
The Sudanese Speaker of Parliament Ibrahim Ahmed Omar, said he had received a letter signed by a majority of lawmakers backing an amendment that would extend the limit.
He said it came from 33 parties representing 294 deputies. The proposed constitutional changes would also give the President the power to sack elected governors.
Mr Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court, ICC for alleged war crimes and genocide in the western province of Darfur.
He denies the allegations.
He is on record to have told the BBC in 2016, that he would step down in 2020.
