99% of the time you are right on, but Bush jr was an actual moron.

Unelected governments seem to be the cool thing. In the UK we have an unelected government. We're really enjoying the genocide of the disabled, unemployed and animals. The best part is how they immediately increased the term time to 5 years when they got in. That might've happened anyway, but it was such an ominous sign of things to come.

I wouldn’t ever argue against that... :P though most of us know who the real “brains” were behind his Presidency.

I like to think that the people of all nations are good, but the leadership often not so much unfortunately.

The great hypocrisy of democracy is that those voted in rarely represent the people. When a government does something, make sure not to fall into the trap of condemning the whole country. Iranians are (or were) the most pro-American people in the Middle East, for example.

Would've been a bit more likely if the Alternative Vote had been introduced in the UK (where you vote for all the candidates or parties you like and rank them in order of preference, and whoever gets the MAJORITY vote i.e. over 50% wins), and the public wanted it, but the campaign to reject (i.e. the previously mentioned unelected government) put up posters saying the Alternative Vote kills babies, and there was a 40% swing to reject it. Insane, and faith-in-humanity crushing.

The same with malayisa, won by minority
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-22422172

And this prime minister bodyguards murder the Mongolian girl, well people with half a brain will know who is the main culprit.

http://www.asiasentinel.com/politics/najib-and-the-murdered-mongolian/

I submit our prime minister in my birth country as a candidate for the worst president

well still, someone actually did vote for them so it might be better if the majority of voters reconsidered the next time around

Lol, how could I think bad of other countries, the wonderful corner of the world where I live hasn't had an elected PM since late 2011.

It sure is a great time for representative democracy in Europe.

Lol it's a deal! I'll try to be on my, (cough), best behavior...

I won't think so about all of Hungary, but your rail service does suck big time.

I apologize in advance for the old joke, but this thread just makes me hungry...

You should go grab some Turkey :P

This is a very common misconception I usally find in Italians: despite what the horde of populists say, the (Italian) Government is not elective. It has never been.
Constitution, title III: the President of the Republic chooses the Prime Minister (he could choose anyone he prefers, but tradition wants him to be the current leader of the winning party), then he proceeds to choose the other memebrs based on the PM's nominations. After that, they must be approved from the Parliament, otherwise the process must be repeated until an agreement is reached.

The Italian television, press and political parties are spreading this kind of ignorant crap only to raise dissatisfaction.


Edit: I wrote "II" instead of "III".
Edit 2: Tons o'typos!

I trust you know what I meant, but if you put it that way... sure thing, one year and half of technical government was totally necessary, granting the almost 90-year-old President of the Republic a second mandate for the first time ever was completely normal, and Letta resigned volountarily without any kind of outside pressure whatsoever.

There was absolutely no game of power there, everyone operated in the best interest of their country, the Constitution was respected and all is fine.

Yeah, but only about 20-25% of all voters voted for them since not many people voted on the elections at all. Also, most of their voters (I mean like 80%) are retired people whom are bought with the stupid mandatory flat cost reduction, which basically made many public service company loose money.