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There's European countries who can have several different prime ministers in the span of three months
(lemmy.world)
Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17835203
Too short election terms make for a dysfunctional government. With the usual 4-5 years most countries use half of that term is already spent campaigning for the next, forcing the government to do anything unpopular (but often necessary) during the first years, and then tone it down and do popular things else they have no chance of getting re elected.
If you shortened that further the politicians would be forced into a perpetual state of pandering to the voter base instead of actually governing.
I think they're referring to the length of the campaigning season, not the presidential term