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B6 POLITICS IN BASRA -- After 30 years of tyranny, Basra has had its first taste of democracy.

From there, the manifesto claimed, there would be a domino effect which would lead to a coup, the release of prisoners from concentration camps and the first taste of democracy for North Korea's 24 million citizens.

The final was watched by 11 million people, a third of the Afghan population, all voting for their favourite singer by mobile phone; for many, it was their first taste of democracy.

Why I'm Voting For James Mathison (despite not being in his electorate) (SBS) Mathison looks at Tony Abbott in Waringah, and asks "What about me?" Dee Fidge, whose first taste of democracy came with Australian Idol, argues his case.

"Here the president is, freeing Iraqi citizens and giving them a first taste of democracy, and you have Democrats like Obey who come up with bizarre requests like this," Mr. Roy said.

After far too many tears and a lot of anger directed towards the older generations and the politicians who failed to make this referendum moral and true, I want to make sure that my first vote, my first taste of democracy, leads to something positive.

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The sounds of gunfire and anger punctuated election day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as millions of people got their second taste of democracy.

But the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, comprising 18 top generals headed by Field-Marshal Muhammad Hussein Tantawi, who served for 20 years as Mr Mubarak's defence minister, has proved a somewhat erratic ruling body.In March the generals invited Egyptians to vote in a referendum, heralded as their first taste of real democracy, to amend eight articles of Egypt's constitution.

In Egypt's first taste of true democracy, the Brotherhood and more fundamentalist Salafist organizations, however, told followers that it was their religious duty to vote to approve a referendum on constitutional amendments that benefited Islamists by speeding up elections.

Remember your first taste of granola?

It was his first taste of war.

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