Facts
According to conventions and law, the President should be a person neutral and not a public office holder during his/term as President. However, all elected presidents have served in governmental positions before their election as President. From Ringadoo who was former Minister of Finance, Ramgoolam who was former Prime Minister, Uteem who was a former cabinet minister with lastly Jugnauth being a former prime minister.
Furthermore, no elected president has been able to complete his/term full term. They have all resigned before due with disagreements with government policies and other issues. Jugnauth resigned after several months of confrontation with the government. However, he resigned in March 2012 to make his comeback in politics.
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Famous quotes containing the word facts:
“A radical is one of whom people say “He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who “doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, “one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have coined the term “progressive.” I should say that a progressive is one who insists upon recognizing new facts as they present themselves—one who adjusts legislation to these new facts.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“The facts of a person’s life will, like murder, come out.”
—Norman Sherry (b. 1925)
“It is not an arbitrary “decree of God,” but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)