It was submitted that the term of the Public Protector be reduced from seven years to five years to reduce the possibility of the abuse of power by the Public Protector The Committee noted that that in Ex parte Chairperson of the Constitutional Assembly: In re Certification of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (10) BCLR 1253 (CC), the Constitutional Court did not regard the seven year term of the Public Protector as problematic. Furthermore the Committee was of the view that given that the Public Protector only served 1 term it did not regard the seven year term as problematic