Back حد تجديد الولاية Arabic Amtszeitbegrenzung German Límite de mandatos Spanish محدودیت دوره Persian Limite du nombre de mandats French הגבלת כהונה HE अवधि सीमा Hindi Tímatakmörk á embættissetu Icelandic 多選 Japanese Ограничение срока правления Russian
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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". This is intended to protect a republic[ambiguous] from becoming a de facto dictatorship.[original research?][globalize] Term limits may be a lifetime limit on the number of terms an officeholder may serve, or a limit on the number of consecutive terms.