She justified her own tenure on the board by saying, "I believe that, while struggling to change and improve government institutions, someone must work within the structures that exist and try to get them to function as responsibly, as efficiently, as democratically as possible".
The regime may have ties to drug trafficking and guerrilla groups, but we also have a functioning, democratically elected parliament, the National Assembly.
Unlike Somalia, Mali is a functioning nation that, until the coup last month, had a functioning, democratically elected government.
Mr. Advic said about 10,000 Serbs are in the city of Tuzla itself, the last major ethnically mixed population center with a functioning democratically elected government in all of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This is not delivered via clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but could be delivered if health and wellbeing boards (HWBs) were more democratic and they, and the local authority overview and scrutiny function, could hold CCGs to account democratically by … Amendment (A) to ensure that the voting members of HWBs are elected or that a majority of the HWB are elected representatives.
The purpose of democracy is to enable people to live democratically.
Ahmadinejad added, "The best way to support Iraq is to support its democratically elected government".
Devolution refers to the legal transfer of power to democratically elected local political organs (LGAs) that are supposedly independent of the central government level with respect to a defined set of functions (9, 10).
It's incumbent on Islamists who are elected democratically to behave democratically".
Should we — do we have a duty to — compel them to live democratically?
