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Outright dictatorships like North Korea are getting rarer. It's more common nowadays for de-facto dictatorships to maintain an appearance of democracy by actual
by Timwi 5y ago
Outright dictatorships like North Korea are getting rarer. It's more common nowadays for de-facto dictatorships to maintain an appearance of democracy by actually holding elections but either having no viable candidates other than the incumbent (e.g. Russia), or by systematically banning or even murdering all opposition (e.g. Belarus). Hungary isn't quite that far gone yet. It still has elections that technically meet the requirements of EU membership. I don't know any more details though.