Anchises
Banned
In Germany 16 years or four terms seem to be a magic number. We don't have a cultural or constitutional limits but in the fourth term things tend to go south for the ruling party. Kohl just made it that far because of reunification and Merkel is (barely) hanging on by a thread. People get fed up with a President/chancellor eventually. If he is in office for 16 years, you have a whole generation of young people who only know one person on the top, that is simply not sustainable.
In the U.S. I don't think four terms are realistic though. A two party system makes the ruling party more vulnerable to a changing public mood, without a coalition partner to absorb voter loss I don't think a fourth term is likely for any modern President.
In the U.S. I don't think four terms are realistic though. A two party system makes the ruling party more vulnerable to a changing public mood, without a coalition partner to absorb voter loss I don't think a fourth term is likely for any modern President.