But sometime between June and August he will probably face impeachment by Indonesia's constitutional assembly the country's supreme body, consisting of the 500 members of parliament plus 200 more delegates, mostly from regional assemblies.
With the 1994 election and the creation of a constitutional state, trade unions were legalised, the military ethos was abandoned and "affirmative action became a constitutional imperative as the country sought to transform its workforce".
While almost every government since 1932 has accepted constitutional authority, the country has had 17 constitutions, the most recent drafted in 2007.
The president, François Hollande, has taken the rare step of promising to refer the law to the constitutional council, the country's highest authority on the constitution, to ensure its principles are lawful.
Madonsela was vindicated in March when the constitutional court, the country's highest court, said the president had breached the constitution by ignoring her recommendation that he repay some of the money.
Mr Farage last night described EU membership as "the most important constitutional question this country".
"Parliament cannot be sidelined from the greatest constitutional change our country has debated in 40 years".
The UK has been stripped of its last AAA rating as credit agency Standard & Poor's warned of the economic, fiscal and constitutional risks the country now faces as a result of the EU referendum result.
Now a constitutional monarchy, the country began its independent life as a republic in the 16th century, when the foundations were laid for it to become one of the world's foremost maritime trading nations.
It was, the American Bar Association declared, "one of the greatest constitutional crises the country has ever faced".
