The Prime Minister of the country was for example under extreme pressure to prove that the elections could be run in a perfectly democratic manner. However, when democracy was not in his favor, violent measures were taken and a reelection demanded to manipulate the results.
The reaction of all involved parties to all the actions taken by the Prime Minister and his ruling party were negative and heavily oppositional. This was not the case in the United States. While some campaign tactics may have resorted to extreme measures in terms of insult or discreditization, this did not result in murder or public violence. Indeed, when the results were made known, parties were able to communicate peacefully. The Republicans, who lost the campaign, accepted the results gracefully once it became clear that recounting the ballots would not change the results (BBC News). Indeed, according to BBC News, President Bush is perfectly willing to work with the winning opposition in order to find solutions to problematic political issues such as Iraq. This, as seen above, is not the case in Ethiopia at all, although it is also true that U.S. campaigners who resorted to potentially harmful tactics would be likely to deny that they did so at all rather than apologize. The political tendency to shy away from one's own mistakes and shortcomings appear to be universal in this sense.
In construction a definition of elections, it is important to first define the democratic paradigm from which it is said to emerge. The Prime Minister of Ethiopia was very confident...
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