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A term of office, electoral term, or parliamentary term is the length of time a person serves in a particular elected office. In many jurisdictions there is a defined limit on how long terms of office may be before the officeholder must be subject to re-election .
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Maximum number of terms Office Maximum number of terms Australia: King / Queen: No set terms (hereditary succession) Prime Minister: No directly set terms; however, they must maintain the support of the House of Representatives, which has a term of three years. Governor-General: No term limits, but traditionally serves for one 5-year term.
Sages of the Constitutional Council are restricted to a single nine-year term. An exception is permitted if a sage dies, in which case a replacement may finish the previous term before serving a full term. [4] The Prime Minister of France is not restricted by terms, instead holding office so long as support of the National Assembly is maintained.
A fixed-term election is an election that occurs on a set date, which cannot be changed by incumbent politicians other than through exceptional mechanisms if at all. The office holder generally takes office for a set amount of time, and their term of office or mandate ends automatically. Most modern democracies hold fixed-terms elections.
The length of a full four-year presidential term of office usually amounts to 1,461 days (three common years of 365 days plus one leap year of 366 days). If the last day is included, all numbers would be one day more, except Grover Cleveland would have two more days, as he served two non-consecutive terms.
In the United States, term limits restrict the number of terms of office an officeholder may serve. At the federal level, the president of the United States can serve a maximum of two four-year terms, limited by the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution .
A term limit is a legal restriction on the number of terms a person may serve in a particular elected office. When term limits are found in presidential and semi-presidential systems they act as a method of curbing the potential for monopoly, where a leader effectively becomes " president for life ".