Sentence examples for a weak mandate from inspiring English sources

But Mr Kirchner has taken charge of a bankrupt country and has a weak mandate.

Having won re-election last October with the slimmest of majorities, Dilma Rousseff has a weak mandate.

The UN has 10,000 troops in Côte d'Ivoire but with a weak mandate merely to protect civilians, not to crush election-spoilers.

Nor are they keen on rolling back the Philippines' banking-secrecy laws, which anger rich countries worried about money-laundering.Mrs Arroyo has always had a weak mandate.

With such a weak mandate, Mr Humala will need the consensus-building skills he says he has learned in order to govern effectively.

He added that Mr. Papandreou is "trying to avoid being catapulted into power, because he would go in with a weak mandate".

FEW democratically elected leaders have assumed office with a weaker mandate than Argentina's Néstor Kirchner.

Barring a sudden change, Mr Santos will get his second term, but on a low turnout and with a weaker mandate.

Even if Mr. Ma wins, the election may now give him a weaker mandate for his goal of pursuing closer economic ties and reduced diplomatic tensions with China.

It was replaced with a slimmer EU force with a weaker mandate, amid suspicions that some European leaders did not want to fund an operation that might encourage greater numbers of unwanted migrants to risk the deadly crossing.

If nothing else this could produce a very weak mandate.