Mr. Karzai has frequently said he does not want to stay in power one day longer than his elected term, yet he had accepted the delay proposed by the election commission until calls grew for him to step aside.
It is true, says Mr Darkin, who submitted himself for re-approval by Mr Putin before his elected term expired, that the new way is less democratic.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is railing at Mr. Abbas for "lying," but the more troubling reality is that the 80-year-old Palestinian leader, who remains in office six years after his elected term expired, has become irrelevant.
The report listed constitutional mechanisms available to the opposition to push Maduro off the Executive before the end of his elected term in 2019.
The president, who took office in 2001 after the assassination of his father, is required by the constitution to step aside at the end of his second elected term.
Theodore Roosevelt sought a third term in 1912 but lost (it would have been his second elected term).
The NSW premier, Mike Baird, has made reducing the reoffending rate by 5% a key goal of his first elected term in office.
During his first elected term, Truman was forced to combat an anti-New Deal, Republican-led Congress with a total of 250 vetoes (180 regular, 70 pocket; 12 overridden).
In the first year of his first elected term, Lyndon Johnson made the presidency look easy.
Unfortunately, too many elected representatives test the wind before voting because of the effect it may have upon their political future, but that future, absent some wrongdoing, should depend upon a fair review of the candidate's record over the elected term and not a single vote in the middle.
To be worthy of the prize -- which pays out the $5 million over 10 years, then provides an annual $200,000 stipend for life -- a recipient must have been democratically elected, have left office within the previous three years after fulfilling his or her elected term and have demonstrated excellence in office and progress in fostering sustainable and equitable prosperity.
