Translation of "mandat pour honoraires d'élection " (French → English) :

Amend the Supreme Court law, not apply a lowered retirement age to current judges, remove the discretionary power of the President to prolong the mandate of Supreme Court judges, and remove the extraordinary appeal procedure , which includes a power to reopen final judgments taken years earlier; Amend the law on the National Council for the Judiciary, to not terminate the mandate of judges-members, and ensure that the new appointment regime continues to guarantee election of judges ...[+++]-members by their peers; Amend or withdraw the law on Ordinary Courts Organisation, in particular to remove the new retirement regime for judges including the discretionary powers of the Minister of Justice to prolong the mandate of judges and to appoint and dismiss presidents of courts; Restore the independence and legitimacy of the Constitutional Tribunal, by ensuring that its judges, President and Vice-Presidents are lawfully elected and by ensuring that all its legitimately delivered judgements are published and fully implemented; Refrain from actions and public statements which could further undermine the legitimacy of the judiciary.

Nor shall they be so entitled if they are appointed as public office holders, or elected members, of another institution of the Union, if that institution has its seat in the town where they were formerly required to reside by reason of their office and if, at the time of the new appointment or election, they have not already effected their resettlement.

C. whereas the key political development during the period from 2013 to 2015 was the presidential election held on 21 July 2015, in which President Pierre Nkurunziza secured a third term of office; whereas this constitutes a breach of the Arusha Accords, which state that the President of the Republic ‘shall be elected for a five-year term, renewable once’ and that ‘no person may serve more than two terms as President’ (Article 7(3)); whereas the crackdown on opposition parties is being stepped up; whereas for that reason the African Union (AU) refused to send observers to follow the elections, the EU suspended its electoral mission to ...[+++] Burundi, and the Burundian opposition decided to boycott the elections;

F. whereas over the years both the BNP and the Awami League have held contradictory and changing views on the merits of a caretaker government, while in May 2011 the Supreme Court declared illegal the 15-year-old constitutional provision mandating an elected government to transfer power on completion of its term to an appointed non-partisan caretaker administration which would oversee a new parliamentary election; whereas, however, ...[+++] the Supreme Court stated that the voided system could be continued for another two parliamentary terms for the sake of the ‘safety of the state and its people’; whereas the system was discredited by the last military-backed caretaker government in 2007-2008, when it refused to hold elections for nearly two years and sent the leaders of the two main parties, Sheikh Hasina and Begum Khaleda Zia (along with her son Tarique Rahman), to jail;

B. whereas under Article 147 of the Nicaraguan Constitution, which was introduced in 1995, it is not possible to run for two consecutive presidential mandates and whereas President Ortega is attempting illegally to circumvent that provision in order to be able to run for a second mandate in the 2011 elections,

B. whereas under Article 147 of the Nicaraguan Constitution, which was introduced in 1995, it is not possible to run for two consecutive presidential mandates and whereas President Ortega is attempting illegally to circumvent that provision in order to be able to run for a second mandate in the 2011 elections,