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By definition any government would be unpopular then, since there was always be some minority who does not like those in power.
by ngc248 6y ago
By definition any government would be unpopular then, since there was always be some minority who does not like those in power.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoDepends on the minority. The ever-present minority of people with merely different political views who can just comfortably wait until the next election, do not make an election illegitimate. But if it’s a religious or ethnic minority and its basic human rights and prosperity are threatened by the new regime, then that does suggest that the new government lacks legitimacy even if a majority of the population voted for it. And that was definitely the case with Egypt’s first post-Tahrir Square government and the Copts. A population cannot vote its universal human rights away.
- bosswipe 6y agoI think instead of "legitimacy", which doesn't mean anything, what you're really saying is "approved by the West and Israel". Similar to Gaza's election or many South American socialist governments, if people make the wrong choice then democracy is discarded.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoIt is a typical retort to anyone criticizing Egypt's first Tahrir Square government that they are representative of "the West and Israel", when in fact the notion that there exist certain universal human rights that any state is bound to respect, is upheld even in many countries outside of the West and Israel.