Even more importantly, she abandoned Mutharika's autocratic tendencies.
Autocratic leaders across the former Soviet Union have been known to dispatch "quid pro quo" observer missions to each others' elections to lend them legitimacy.
Ruchita Sarvaiya asked what the world could do to support the fight for human rights in Sudan – a country where the autocratic president is renowned for harsh crackdowns on the opposition, and is the only sitting head of state to have been indicted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Farage's party critics clearly feel he has got too big for his boots, too divisive, too autocratic, too unpopular ever to break out of the 12.6 % share of the vote Ukip won on 7 May.
The autocratic president Alexander Lukashenko, in power for the past 17 years, was re-elected in December 2010 with 80% of the vote, after a disputed poll.
Our permission to enter the "alienated zone" in Belarus was rescinded, and I went to the capital, Minsk, a five-hour drive on a straight road through endless forests and past vast collective farm fields, a landscape so relentlessly flat, so unchanging from beginning to end, that only an autocratic centralising regime could have produced it.
Despite the attacks, Karimov has become ever more autocratic.
Vincent Tan's mind is a closed book, but the Welsh club's autocratic owner must be thinking he should have appointed Tony Pulis, who was out of work when the Malaysian moneyman first fell out with Malky Mackay early this season.
"There will be no more of it and if that means I have to move into a slightly autocratic mode, and say if anyone is caught briefing behind anyone's backs after what we have gone through over the past three days [they] will be removed," he said.
His many critics said Morsi had authoritarian leanings and that his removal was essential to prevent Egypt from eventually turning into an autocratic theocracy.
In the past, he has been supportive of autocratic rulers toppled during the 2011 revolutions such as Hosni Mubarak and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.
