Non-Retroactive Constitution Complicates PotentialBut is a third term possible for President Weah? President Weah was elected on the 1986 constitution that calls for six years. President Weah was elected on the 1986 Constitution that calls for six years. In 2015, President Pierre Nkurinziza of Burundi secured a constitutional interpretation by the Constitutional Court to run for a third term, after his proposed constitutional amendment to allow a third term was defeated in the Senate. President Weah is in the second year of his first term and is eligible for re-election in October 2023 for a second and final term.

Source: Front Page Africa January 24, 2020 04:07 UTC