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Steve Chabot: “Shutting down independent press, suppressing opposition and civil society, threatening civil war if your party doesn't…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2017
Shutting down independent press, suppressing opposition and civil society, threatening civil war if your party doesn't win, jailing your political opponent, and then dissolving their party so there is essentially no opposition, that is not a democracy.
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Steve Chabot
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Chabot outlines the undemocratic practices of Hun Sen's government.

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