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3. Political Leadership
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| Article 20- Political mandate | ||
| 20.1 | Political mandate | |
| The political mandate is when the leader has been duly elected to their position my a majority of the people on the basis of a political agenda (political manifesto). | ||
| Where such democratic election takes place, it can be said that the leader has a "mandate" or right to pursue the agenda to which they were duly elected. | ||
| Where this agenda includes the prosecution of war, then the war is said to have a political mandate to the extent that it was included in the manifesto of the leader and agreed by the people. | ||
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