Unelected power: Democracy on the retreat in Europe

[newthinking]

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Genuine people’s power is on the retreat in Europe, and it's under attack from those who most loudly claim to be “democrats.”

Last week we saw the unelected EU foreign policy chief, Baroness Ashton, meeting the new unelected Ukrainian “president,” Aleksandr Turchynov, who came to power following a violent overthrow of that country's democratically elected president – with the rebellion backed by the EU.

The hailing of a foreign-backed coup d’état in a country where fresh elections were only 12 months away as a “victory for democracy” was truly Orwellian. The wishes of the 2 million people who marched against the Iraq war in London in February 2003 were arrogantly dismissed, but the protesters in Maidan, though far fewer in number, simply had to have their way.

Ukraine, though a dramatic example, is not the only European country where democracy has been suspended in recent years.
In February, Matteo Renzi became Italy's third successive unelected prime minister. You've actually got to back as far as 2008 for the last time an Italian prime minister was democratically chosen by the Italian people.

From November 2011 until May 2012, Greece also had an unelected prime minister, Lucas Papademos, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank. In Hungary, the unelected businessman Gordon Bajnai was the country's prime minister from 2009 to 2010.

Continued Here
http://rt.com/op-edge/democracy-on-retreat-europe-ukraine-608/

[Pretzel_Warrior]

1. Bahahaha. Ukrainians will greet Russia as liberators

Putin is just trying to spread Democracy through the barrel of a gun.

It now dawns on me. Putin is engaged in elaborate performance art mocking Bush.

[newthinking]

2. Did you even read the op ed? Most of it was not about Ukraine

[Pretzel_Warrior]

3. Yes I did. More RT Putin crap having temerity to lecture Europe on

Democracy.

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4. He is a UK Journalist that works for the Guardian

[Democracyinkind]

5. Switzerland being the exception. as always.

For good or bad.