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Is he illiterate? Did he ever open dictionary? If he did, he would have found that republic means representative democracy.
He needs his illiteracy liquidated. Sadly, likbez ended about 100 years ago.
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Representative yes, but it doesn't say WHO can be the representatives. You can entirely design a system where only rich men could be representatives.
In fact, the wikipedia article says:
Indeed. Not even who can vote.
Most if not all historical democracies, whether direct or representative ones, allowed at most only half of population to vote.
What I guess he means is there's a leader (dictator), and there are other people in power besides him, so it's not a dictatorship. Or the Hungarian-style "fake democracy" where the opposition only exists to try to convince the EU we're not a de-facto dictatorship, Viktor Orbán is just so beloved by everyone.
Many countrues have this.
Pretty much like Russia. Does he claim 80/80 support? 80% of votes with 80% turnover.
Republic can also just mean not ruled by a monarch. The Dutch Republic wasn’t a democracy.
Dictionary. Read it.
History book. Read it.
It will say names not always correlate with actual thing. Thanks, cap.
Or if you use history for defining words, then federation would mean "with strong leader and rigid power vertical".