For the next 15 years Vargas assumed largely dictatorial powers, ruling most of that time without a congress.
One of Iran's opposition leaders, Mir Hussein Moussavi, said Saturday that a dictatorial "cult" was ruling Iran — one of his most critical statements against the country's rulers since disputed elections last summer.
Under his dictatorial rule, dissidents were jailed, tortured and murdered.
Rather, they claimed to exercise the authority to decide on the exception in the name of the French people, even while they were ruling the French people by the use of dictatorial methods (D 132 47).
South Africa's ruling party seems unhappy to have submitted itself to an internal contest that has humiliated President Mbeki, who himself seems loth to badger neighbouring Zimbabwe's dictatorial Robert Mugabe into holding fair elections.
He finds a ruling class torn between haughty entitlement, weak-willed liberalism, and nostalgic aestheticism, and workers whose seething resentments and petty dreams lead them to side with dictatorial overlords.
"He's ruling differently, for sure, and people are intimidated by him because of the anti-corruption campaign". But Shirk said she was reserving judgment on whether Xi was attempting "a real dictatorial play" until the new line-up of China's top ruling council, the politburo standing committee, was announced on Wednesday.
At times Roberts overplays the gruesome nature of Equatorial Guinea's dictatorial rulers, Macias Nguema and his nephew and successor, Obiang, particularly when it comes to accusations of cannibalism, but nonetheless he draws a convincing picture of wholesale corruption and brutality on the part of the country's ruling class.
The ruling regime – the National Council for Peace and Order led by prime minister general Prayut Chan-ocha – took power in a coup d'état and promised to restore democracy within a year, but instead "exercised increasingly dictatorial power and continued to systematically repress fundamental rights and freedoms".
