Congress's interpretation of this popular mandate was to remove all 31 judges on the court.
Prime Minister David Cameron denied the low-number of voters means the PCC role lacks a popular mandate.
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For a start, Mr Abhisit lacks a popular mandate to lead his country.
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On the other hand, the new president will have a popular mandate.
If they do so, the United States will be under infinitely greater pressure to agree that the Sandinistas have received a bona fide popular mandate.
But the Philippine elite, once aghast at the prospect of an Estrada presidency, is rallying behind a man who at least has a popular mandate.
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If, despite his great popularity, Mr Uribe were unable to secure a high enough turnout, his would-be successors would have only a few weeks to secure a popular mandate.
After winning numerous elections since his party first swept to power in 2002, Erdogan appears to have a popular mandate under Turkey's constitution, which was written by a military junta in the 1980s.
Because diesel passenger cars are popular in Europe, the mandate is prompting countries like Indonesia and Malaysia to produce biodiesel from their cash crop, palm oil.
Repealing the individual mandate might be popular, for example, but it will make the insurance market worse unless you repeal all of the other aspects of Obamacare that make insurance more expensive.
To give himself a real shot at becoming Indonesia's next president, Rais needs to increase the disappointing 7.4% of the popular vote that his National Mandate Party won in the parliamentary elections last June.
South Wales Police Federation congratulated Mr Michael, but said the low turnout meant the winning candidate had "no mandate for their views and no popular support for their position".
Its no-frills mandate--no meals, no in-flight service, no travel agents--is popular with both budget-seekers and jet-setters.
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