Word: term
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RESIGNED Florida Republican Mel Martinez is stepping down 16 months before the end of his first term in the U.S. Senate...
...Niger No Limits President Mamadou Tandja has been cleared to run for a third term after Nigerois overwhelmingly voted in a referendum to overturn a constitutional two-term limit. Opposition leaders accused Tandja, in office since 1999, of destroying the nation's democratic institutions and voiced their concerns about Niger's possible slip into dictatorship. Tandja defended the move, saying he needed more time to oversee large-scale foreign investments...
African nations that have removed or extended term limits...
...term limits...
...MUAMMAR GADDAFI Libya 40 years The world's third-longest-serving current head of state has called for an end to term limits for all African leaders...