Mr Peña belongs to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled the country autocratically for seven decades and had blocked or watered down most of the legislative agenda of Felipe Calderón, the president in 2006-12.
He has ruled autocratically at times; media outlets have been shut down, political opponents have been harassed and--perhaps most worrying for the country's democratic future--he has total control of the army and increasingly the police.
"The Chinese people can only be governed autocratically; they cannot enjoy freedom".
Unfortunately, though both men are autocratically inclined, neither is in a strong position.In this section For Palestine, bring in Solomon Sorrows on two fronts Reprints Related topics Ehud Barak Jerusalem Oslo Europe Nordic countriesMr Barak's coalition still has a 68-seat majority in the 120-seat Knesset, but it is fragile.
So, for the purposes of local politics, Tamils, Gujeratis, Keralans and Bibaris were redefined as a single tribe, and began to behave as such.Once in power in Karachi, the MQM behaved vengefully and autocratically towards other ethnic groups (who, altogether, make up around half of Karachi's population).
In defensive response, Mr Prachanda and his chief ideologue, Baburam Bhattarai, stiffened their demands.It has not helped that the eight-party alliance is run autocratically by Mr Koirala, an ailing octogenarian in his sixth decade in politics.
In practice, however, they ruled autocratically on behalf of urban elites, with the help of an over-mighty army.
But in failing to deal with the region's own problems, ASEAN is echoing the sorry state of those individual members which are being run either autocratically, or shambolically or both.
It had no law codes or courts, and the king ruled autocratically.
June 1, 1815 Salzburg, Austria July 26, 1867 Bamberg, Germany Otto, also called Otto von Wittelsbach (born June 1 , 1815 Salzburg, Austria died July 26, 1867, Bamberg, Bavaria [Germany]) first king of the modern Greek state (1832 62), who governed his country autocratically until he was forced to become a constitutional monarch in 1843.
Of course, the centralized, autocratically directed, and ideologically orthodox one-party systems of totalitarian regimes perform neither of these functions.
