# Referendum scraps presidential term limits and the age-70 ceiling

Date: 2015

## The fact

On 25 October 2015 the Republic of the Congo held a constitutional referendum that removed the two-term presidential cap and the age-70 ceiling and shortened the mandate from seven years to five. Opposition boycotted. Interior Minister Raymond Mboulou on 27 October announced 92.96 percent yes with 72.44 percent turnout. The Constitutional Court later printed 94.32 percent yes and 71.16 percent turnout. Critics said turnout was far lower.

## Context

He announced the referendum path on 27 March 2015. He promulgated on 6 November 2015, opening further mandates. Denis-Christel Sassou Nguesso is unresolved. This page does not mint ukraine-war.

25 October vote; 27 October Interior announcement; 6 November promulgation. Stored as one 25 October 2015 Fact. Keep Referendum scraps presidential term limits and the age-70 ceiling on 2015-10-25 separate from neighbouring Sassou instruments.

The President of the Republic of the Congo is head of state. He can call a referendum, promulgate a constitution, and contest a presidential poll. He does not write Reuters notes, BBC dispatches, or Constitutional Court arrêts.

## Evidence and sources

Reuters carries the official instrument or communique. BBC News records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

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## What is established and what is not

Established: The 25 October 2015 referendum passed as announced on 27 October and adjusted by the Court. The text removed the two-term cap and the age-70 ceiling.

Not established: A unique turnout integer reconciling 72.44 percent with critics’ lower figure, or that Denis-Christel is minted.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Sharing Interior turnout figures is not a reason to drop 25 October 2015.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Referendum scraps presidential term limits and the age-70 ceiling, not a later speech about Referendum scraps presidential term limits and the age-70 ceiling.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Referendum scraps presidential term limits and the age-70 ceiling on 2015-10-25 is not a licence to treat every later Reuters communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Referendum scraps presidential term limits and the age-70 ceiling into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He called the referendum and promulgated the text. Sharing Interior turnout figures is not a reason to drop 25 October 2015. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Denis Sassou Nguesso: https://factrail.ai/people/denis-sassou-nguesso

## Sources

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## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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