• edge [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Term limits are bullshit anyway. If a president is good and well liked they should stay.

    Our “best” (relatively) President won four terms because he implemented a basic social safety net. Capital responded by making sure that wasn’t possible again.

    It’s funny how a prime minister in Europe holding power for more than a decade is fine but a President in Latin America is suddenly a dictator for wanting more than 2 terms.

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      1 year ago

      Personally I’m not convinced of term limits either. It’s more about the fact he readily ignored a constitution implemented under his rule, as soon as it started bothering him.

      And I mean thats what the referendum in 2016 was about. If the people had wanted him to stay in power, they would’ve voted to increase the maximum amount of term limits. But they simply didn’t, they did not want him to go into another term. He did anyway.