the remaining differences are mostly about aesthetics and not about the use of violence to maintain hegemony
The blocking of certain candidates happend for good reason: Those were involves in assassination plots against the government and coup plots. Any other country would have jailed them or outright put them to the wall.
The blocking of certain candidates happend for good reason: Those were involves in assassination plots against the government and coup plots. Any other country would have jailed them or outright put them to the wall.