"The first mandate of President Nkurunziza was about the consolidation of his power within the ruling party, and his second mandate was about the consolidation of his grip over the institutions and the preparation of his third mandate.
Now the fourth round, where a successful candidate just needs a straight majority (not the two-thirds mandate of earlier rounds).
As the drought intensified, Brown last year ordered a statewide 25% cut in urban water use, the first mandate of its kind in California history.
The situation is reminiscent of the the first mandate of the man that Martelly replaced as president, René Préval, in the late 1990s.
"One of the first mandates of the existing government was, 'Do not touch the gorillas,' " Ms. Rugamba said.
The stubbornly weak economy has prompted some to question their neglect of the second mandate.
[The Premier] will promise to appoint a new "early learning adviser" to tell the government how to implement universal full-day pre-school before the end of its second mandate in 2011.
We also implement the first System-Wide Action Plan on Youth that was mandated by the United Nations Secretary-General at the beginning of his second mandate.
"We'd have a lot of it done by the end of our first mandate, we'd have a target to get it done absolutely across the country by the end of a second mandate, that would be realistic," he said. .
He was returned to power during a violence-wracked ballot in 2000, with his second mandate marked by high levels of official corruption and political violence before he too was overthrown by an armed insurrection after months of large-scale street protests against his rule.
