Surely the learning curve for such a huge job should allow for terms longer than four years, especially since much energy during those four years must be expended in the effort to secure a second four years.
Abbas is into the twelfth year of a long ago-expired four year term.
The Youth Parliamentarians will serve a two year term and for this first session, will deliberate for three days.
In that election he was again elected to a two year term, finishing first of seventeen candidates, but this time resigned one year into his term in order to run for mayor in the 1905 election.
He concluded that the document allowed him to run for a third five-year term despite a constitutional limit of two terms.
The session adjourned after less than two hours, illustrating the deepening opposition to Maliki's bid for a third four-year term.
Mr. Akayev was re-elected for a third five-year term last month, but the deputies argue that the Constitution limits the president to two terms.
She was elected to the Senate in 1994 and is now running for a third four-year term.
Mr. Bates, 64, an assemblyman for 20 years, was easily elected on Nov. 5, a day after the paper, The Daily Californian, endorsed Mayor Shirley Dean for a third four-year term.
"Could we then maintain the semblance of a nation?" But Mr. Chen is prevented by the Constitution from running for a third four-year term when voters go to the polls on March 22 to choose the next president.
Mayor Bates, 64, a Democrat who was one of the most liberal members of the State Assembly for two decades, was elected on Nov. 5, a day after The Daily Californian, the free student newspaper at the university, endorsed the incumbent mayor, Shirley Dean, for a third four-year term.
