It is undemocratic to govern an area without an electoral mandate.

It is an advantage that the coalition has no real electoral mandate for its austerity programme.

Impeachment presents the prospect of reversing the electoral mandate that brought the executive to office.

In any case, it could hardly be carried out without an electoral mandate.

The Lithuanian leaders said their electoral mandate was referendum enough.

They are the ones running around like a bunch of headless chickens trying to take over a process that has an electoral mandate behind it.

Coalition governments cannot deliver a single party's electoral mandate, because there has to be consensus on policy with other parties.

This lack of an electoral mandate for what is now Government policy seems to bother no one in Russia these days.

He got his electoral mandate in 1886 with the Liberal Party.

He will have two convincing majorities under his belt and the biggest electoral mandate of any politician.