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[Tiago]

If there is one overriding lesson to deduce from the last decade’s world events it must be this: elections alone do not make a democracy . Elections without democratic institutions merely lead to elected dictatorships , indeed to a kind of mob rule (high jacked by ethnocentric Galla mob). The fact that so many leaders get re-elected under such conditions should come as no surprise. If you control the means of communication with the public, while you intimidate and silence opposition politicians and media, and you monopolize the disbursement of employment, it’s not hard to get re-elected. But we have seen this script too often now to grant such systems the name of democracy. And here’s the rub: they do represent a new kind of system, a codified approach to governance, one that can and does get replicated in desperate countries.

In which democratic country -
Journalists and members of opposition parties are routinely harassed and jailed?
war criminals and warmongers are given clemency without proper due process of the law?
citizens are denied free movement within their own country?
ethnic violence and cleansing is tolerated and surreptitiously sanctioned?

[Tiago]

Tunisia has in Kais Saied who won the election by 74% democratically ,but he is now busy dismantling every democratic institution and replacing it with demagogy .

https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... bensedrine

[Tiago]

Tunisia has in Kais Saied who won the election by 74% democratically ,but he is now busy dismantling every democratic institution and replacing it with demagogy .

https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... bensedrine