Quote (Santara @ Jun 10 2022 04:37am)
The election was held in the entire country minus the stolen Crimean peninsula, and the opposition reformed in a new party which was on the ballot. These are basic facts.
Akin to having Republicans overthrow the lawfully elected Democratic president, have California and New York secede, then hold new elections where the Democrats aren't allowed to participate and claim a legitimate new Republican-led democracy that holds dominion over California and New York. Democracy is an all or nothing affair. Either you have representation of the people inside a democracy, or you don't have democracy. You don't get to pick and choose which elections count, take mulligans and disenfranchise half the country, ban their parties, seize control of the press, outlaw dissent, then surrender all sovereignty to foreign masters.
Somalia held some "elections" last month for a new "government". 275 of the "representatives" cast their votes and elected Mohamud over Mohamed in a 214-110 victory. Of course, only 24 of those representatives were elected by citizenry, the other 251 were simply put in place by NIEC as representatives of various clans and warlords working with the UNDP, UNSOM, IESG and their EU/US masters. And even with such a transparent sham of a process, they still found time for Mohamed's forces to assassinate opposition candidates and arrest journalists. In the end they had a power struggle over a role with no real power.
Democracy without representation isn't democracy. The trappings and superficial process of democracy don't make a democracy.