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countries that sore higher in terms of democracy, whats the catch? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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according to a site called democracymatrix there are 35 countries more democratic than the us

the countries

Denmark
Norway
Finland
Sweden
Germany
Switzerland
Netherlands
New Zealand
Belgium
Costa Rica
Spain
Luxembourg
Australia
Estonia
Iceland
Ireland
United Kingdom
Austria
France
South Korea
Lithuania
Italy
Portugal
Canada
Japan
Taiwan
Uruguay
Cyprus
Chile
Slovakia
Greece
Czech Republic
Latvia
Barbados
Israel

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Back to the UK and Spain, inside those countries, elections have been held to decide if their regions should split and be independent. However, said elections weren't quite "fair" as most people in the regions that wanted to be independent did vote on favor of independence, however it was the mayority of the countries' populations (England and the rest of Spain), that voted to keep things as they are.

Which votes are you referring to? Speaking for the UK, only the people of Scotland got a vote on their independence.