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It's not hard to choose when there's only 1 real candidate. USSR had elections too.
by kbart 9y ago
It's not hard to choose when there's only 1 real candidate. USSR had elections too.
- vbezhenar 9y agoThere were 4 candidates on the last elections. More than in US, AFAIK.
- kingofhdds 9y agoLike it means something, there was just one controlling counting of votes. Sorry, even his fans here in Belarus don't take 'elections' seriously.
- pound 9y agoEvery election in Belarus in the last couple of decades is a circus. Lukashenko rules for 23 years now having complete control over elections.
- varjag 9y agoThe US had scores of candidates, if you think it's any useful metric. http://www.politics1.com/p2016.htm http://www.politics1.com/p2016.htm There are effectively no elections held in Belarus since 1994. Any true contenders are crushed and imprisoned, and the votes aren't counted either way.
- d__k 9y agoIt is not about the number of candidates and freedom of choice. A true democracy needs its own Guantanamo (US) and citizens of 1st and 2nd classes (Estonia, Latvia). And the most important factor is who is your friend because these friends will eventually decide who you are. There were many classical dictatorships which were treated as democracies and vice versa.