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The thing that makes Iran not a democracy is that all those bodies (parliament, president, parties) answer to the supreme leader and religious authority. It’s
by inglor 4y ago
The thing that makes Iran not a democracy is that all those bodies (parliament, president, parties) answer to the supreme leader and religious authority.
It’s not a democracy if the elected bodies all answer to unelected ones.
- alasdair_ 4y ago> It’s not a democracy if the elected bodies all answer to unelected ones. Like the supreme court?
- inglor 4y agoThe Supreme Court of which country?
- johnnymorgan 4y ago
- acdha 4y agoConflating the two is either incredibly dishonest or a sign that you’ve been listening to people who are. This kind of flamebait doesn’t lead to the kind of discussions people want on HN.
- josefx 4y agoLuckily the courts don't answer to it and most of the crazy is contained.
- hef19898 4y agoFeeding the troll, but why not. Governments of EU countries are not subservent to the EU commision, they are the ones nominating commissars and confirmed by the elected EU parliament (as a full commission), in a process not unlike the Senate approval of, e.g. SCOTUS judges. And those individual governments are democratically elected as well.