A curious characteristic of many dictators is that they are desperate for the legitimacy of democracy even when unwilling to forfeit power. To pursue this paradox, they pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the facade of elections that are essentially baubles to distract from the consolidation of dictatorship.
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