"As President,I will sign a Universal Health Care plan into law by the end of my first term in office."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

The opposition says the changes would allow current President Gloria Arroyo to stay in power past the end of her term in May,next year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

Mr.Zelaya's arrest by Honduran troops and deportation to Costa Rica was triggered by his efforts to hold a referendum that could have kept him in office beyond the end of his term in January.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

The left-leaning elected Honduran leader was arrested by the military and deported three months ago in a dispute over his efforts to stage a referendum that would have allowed him to remain in office beyond the end of his term, which ends in January.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22