22 / 10 / 2009
Gerontocracy vs. democracy. Democracy Digest.
This weekend’s election in Tunisia will be predictably for a region where “ageing autocrats use elections for the sole purpose of keeping themselves in power and their family in riches,” one observer writes:
Compared to the violent oppression of it’s neighbors, Algeria and Libya as well as Egypt, Tunisian political control is more discrete and more [...]
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