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khurtwilliams says...

Ok, just one more link.

[How Viktor Orban hollowed out Hungary’s democracy][1]

> In the place of such strife, he and his colleagues in Fidesz, the governing party, have over the past nine years sought to align the executive, legislative and judicial powers of the state. Those branches now buttress each other and Fidesz—sometimes unobtrusively, sometimes blatantly. Mr Orban refers to the result of these efforts as the “system of national co-operation”. He used to speak more openly of an “illiberal democracy”.

[1]: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019…

khurtwilliams says...

India witnessed the 21-month-long draconian rule in 1975 and 1976 when the then prime minister Indra Gandhi unilaterally declared a state of emergency in the country and suspended the citizens' basic civil rights.

The ruling Indian National Congress had the supermajority in parliament with 73 per cent (352 out of 518) of members belonging to Gandhi's party. With the help of her party's supermajority in parliament, she took the most authoritarian decisions in the history of Indian democracy to safeguard her own political and personal interests.

https://www.dailysabah.com/op-ed/2017/0…

khurtwilliams says...

As we can see in real-time from [what is happening in Turkey][1], a parliamentary system is inclined to authoritarianism and abuse. When a political party gets a supermajority in the country's parliament, the leader of that party or the prime minister can use these extra powers to pass the laws in favour of his own political gains and in the case of Turkey, even change the system by which leaders are elected.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr…