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Originally Posted by Trev
3 things...
1. Wikipedia gives a FAR better explanation of things than a dictionary.
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Nnnno.
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Originally Posted by Trev
2. Mugabe took over and as yet has not been able to be voted out (due to killing all the other candidates and oposed voters.
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I quite agree.
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Originally Posted by Trev
3. Nobody there has a choice, unless they prefer death.
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Sometimes the choice is hard. Nobody is saying that Mugabe is a fair man but unfortunately he has just ran a democratic election. Not a 'fair and democratic' election as you often hear quoted, but a democratic one nonetheless.
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Originally Posted by flib1
free and fair democratic system
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That's the term. A free and fair democratic system is a world apart from a merely democratic system. Then there's a free and fair democratic system with completely independent, mutually exclusive parties. Very, very few countries operate the latter.