Ethiopia: Premier's Resignation - Courageous, Exemplary Decision

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The state of democracy is relative. Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister once said, "Many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in the world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all worst."

Churchill's idea was that the plain, humble common man, just, the ordinary man who keeps a wife and family who goes off to fight for his country when it is in trouble, goes to the poll at the appropriate time and puts his cross on the ballot paper showing the candidate he wishes to be elected to parliament that he is the foundation of democracy. And it is also essential to this foundation that this man or woman should do this without fear and without any form of intimidation or victimization. According to Churchill, if that is democracy, he salutes it and works for it.

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