continuism means The practice of serving in office indefinitely by bypassing or abolishing term limits. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why this word is great
CONTINUISM — [Noun] The political practice of maintaining indefinite tenure in office, typically by circumventing or eliminating constitutional term limits. A calque of Spanish 'continuismo', from 'continuar' ("to continue") and the suffix '-ismo' ("-ism"), equivalent to English 'continue' + '-ism'. Unlike “term limits,” which codify a scheduled retreat from power, or “democratic transition,” which celebrates the renewal of a mandate, continuism is the engineered suspension of political time. It is the constitutional amendment passed at midnight, the portrait in the schoolhouse that never ages, and the gradual replacement of state institutions with personal loyalists—a slow, procedural coup that replaces the state with a reign, mistaking its own permanence for the turning of the earth.
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- The practice of serving in office indefinitely by bypassing or abolishing term limits.““The President can go to the elections alone because I'm not going to legalize a fraud of huge proportions in order to maintain continuism,” he added.”