The Westminster political system does not call for term limits. Candidates can offer for the job as prime minister as many times as they wish.
There are supposed to be several checks and balances in the system, however, which ensure no one person is able to stay on in the post in perpetuity.
The main check should be competitive democratic political parties. If many candidates have a chance to be leader, it would be difficult for ineffective leaders, or those past their prime, to stay on.
In The Bahamas, and in the democratic developing world in general, we lack this important component of an evolved political culture.
Hubert Ingraham has led the Free National Movement for most of the last two deca ...

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