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It lacks democracy.

The police said that the suspect in Ms. Park's attack had served 14 years in prison on charges including assault and that he had told them he was "upset at a society that lacks democracy".

"As a territory, Puerto Rico lacks democracy at national level, so a bill that suppresses — rather than supervises — our democratic process at the local level cannot stand," said Pierluisi.

Backward, lacking democracy, bereft of Enlightenment principles, the product of a very different history, it was not western.

According to a nationwide survey by the polling company Parametría, almost 50% of the population thinks Mexico lacks real democracy.

But Obama will bring an insight Bush lacked - democracy requires more than "deposing a dictator and setting up a ballot box".

Hungarian democracy lacks checks and balances, say European and American diplomats.

Whatever Washington lacks in actual democracy, it makes up, of course, in monuments.

Martin Kettle points out that social democracy lacks a majority in most European countries.

Elliot Myers, 25, London: The EU lacks transparency and democracy My vote is not on immigration, nor is it on economics.

Are riots in France that last weeks on end a demonstration that France lacks a viable democracy?