How many countries do not have limits on the number of terms their Presidents can serve?

Question

The United Kingdom is one :)

president, prime minister, same difference

US. term limits :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-Second_Amendment

allow me to claify, I am not talking about the figurehead, i am talking about the president/prime minister, who once elected has the power.

oops *Clarify

Answer 1

Well this is sort of a trick question... wait, you did specifically mention Presidents so ok. I was going to say that some countries do not have term limits for their Presidents but have systems with... like maybe a Prime Minister... that might have term limits or restrictions of some sort... most do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_term_limits has a list of countries with their term limits. I'd have to pick through the list to determine which ones don't. France doesn't have a term limit for the President and the PM is tied in with Parliament.

Answer 2

Most democracies have no term limits for their Presidents or Prime Ministers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_limits

The US is in the minority that has term limits on the Presidency.

The yahoo US and it's vile demonizing and vilifying of the DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED CHAVEZ accuses Chavez of wanting to destroy Venezuela's democracy all because he wants NO TERM LIMITS on the Presidency .

By this insane ludicrous American "logic" ,Canada,Britain,Australia and dozens of other democracies are DICTATATORSHIPS because they have no term limits.

Ignoramuses all !!!!


Considering that in the US citizens are not even allowed to elect their own President (the Electoral College does) is but a reminder of just how un-democratic the US really is.

In 2000,Gore won the plurality and in any other democracy they would automatically become the leader but not in the US where the Founding Fathers had nothing but contempt for "WE ,The People" and produced a republican form of government and NOT a representative democracy.

Answer 3

New Zealand and Australia dont seem to have limits. John Howard was just kicked out after 12 years as Prime Minister, and Helen Clark is in her 3rd term as PM in NZ. I would say that you dont need a limit. As long as you run the country on an even keel, and dont let the power go to your head, and you can continue to persuade people to vote for you, then you can be the head of the country as long as you want.

People in power usually get dumped, when they let the power go to their heads - like Clinton, Bush, Howard and Tony Blair.

Of course the founding fathers were very wise to legislate a 2 term limit.

Answer 4

I don't know but I believe there is no limit on the number of times that the Uk has on its Prime ministers I have a feeling that it is an American thing.

Answer 5

Term limits are generally a feature of constitutional republics (i.e. the United States). Parliamentary democracies like the United Kingdom generally don't have term limits because heads of state in that situation are generally expected to resign of their own accord when their approval ratings start to dip and they've "done all they can do".

Answer 6

Thankfully we're not one of them...it's two and out for Dubya.

Oh and for the record UK doesn't have a President, they have a Prime Minister.