No electorate has approved it.
There is no electorate that can toss the Libyans out of the human rights commissioner's chair, no judicial system that can try corrupt officials.
Do you imply that private enterprise should stay out of states where an infrastructure of laws and permissions is lacking and where political structures are autocratic so that there is no electorate worth its name?
Third, there's no accountability - no House of Lords Select Committee, US Government Accountability Office or parliamentary oversight (recall the Iraq oil-for-food debacle and its cover-up at the UN), and no electorate to kick the UN reprobates out when they act contrary to the public interest.
"With vast parts of Syria completely destroyed by Assad's air-force, army and militias over the last three years, and with a third of Syria's population displaced internally or in refugee camps in the region, there is no electorate in Syria in a condition to exercise its right to vote," the main Syrian Opposition Coalition said in a statement last month.
No electorate is well-informed on the merits and demerits of individual judges.
Perhaps R&D benefitted solely from the siege mentality of the Cold War and without a Cold War, no electorate – Boomer, GenX, whatever – would pony up 2% of GDP for the lab instead of an extra 2% for tax breaks or Medicare.
"But no, the electorate, like juries, are nearly always right, and they were right in 2010 to boot us out.
Most of the no-voting electorates were in Sydney, stretching in an arc from the "bible belt" Hills district in north-western Sydney through the heart of western Sydney and then through the St George district in southern Sydney.
Locked into a macro-economic framework dictated by Washington and Brussels - meeting IMF requirements and convergence criteria for the euro - New European politicians offer their electorates no real choices.
