the president's mandate is all of our will not leave the streets before he has left power well laurent dubois is professor of history at the university of virginia he says more protests are inevitable. this is actually an attack against the opposition parties kind of an excuse to round up opponents the people who have been arrested are a number of prominent voices and critiquing his regime so to me it seems like the story is a cover for something very different it's important that today is february 7th a very sad and he said history is a very important date it's the anniversary of the overthrow of junk load of a in 1906 and also supposed to be the end of the president's mandate now there is a discussion and debate between opposition and president least about whether his mandate ends this february or next february because of the circumstances that the election that brought him to power which were themselves quite contested and so that's the kind of point i think today was meant to be a portent it was going to be a potential day of protest against him and the beginning of more protests so it se