Mexico may fall into that category early next month.
The potential for a presidential candidate other than PRI being elected is very much there.
On a side note, it’s interesting to hear stories of pure corruption when that corruption is being practiced “in the best interests” of the populace.
The old gentleman who cuts my hair was born and raised in Gudalupe, Zacatecas. He recalls, as a child, being paid one peso for each ballot box he carried off and dumped in a landfill during elections.
I just want to correct some missuses of language here. It is important to realize that Arab is NOT the same thing as Islamic. Iranians, Egyptians, Turks and Pakistanis are NOT Arabic peoples, but they ARE Islamic peoples. Arabs are people from Arabia (Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, UAE). While Islam began in Arabia, and still uses Arabic as an official language, and while Arabs did settle in areas outside of Arabia, most Islamic areas outside of Arabia are NOT predominantly Arabic in culture.
Egyptians are Arabs. The ones of the Pharoahs weren’t, but todays Egyptians are.
“Democracy” simply means “rule by the people.” Well… what if “the people” like oppressive laws?
I’m not joking. Our founding fathers were VERY suspicious of “the people,” believing that a large percentage of “the people” were ignorant boobs who’d very quickly turn a democracy into an anarchical society, or into a new tyranny.
Westerners who claim to support “democracy” found, to their horror, that when “the people” got to choose their leaders in ALgeria (among other countries), “the people” turned to repressive, Islamic fundamentalists!
You see, if the kind of “democracy” most of us in the USA want is to flourish, there have to be controls on what the majority can do. Without such controls, Arab “democracy” simply produces newer oppressive regimes.