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Presidential term limits do not encumber the deputy president

The main constitutional function of the deputy president in a presidential system such as Kenya’s (and the United States’) is to secure an efficient and least disruptive transition, whenever a vacancy arises in the President’s office.

While the deputy president is constitutionally mandated to serve as the principal assistant to the president, there is no doubt that the president does not suffer for want of assistants in the discharge of his constitutional mandate.

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