Yanukovytch was popularly elected, a trait he shares with the Presidents of France,n Russia, Venezuela, an the USA. This distinguishes him from heads of state that are not like the President of Europe or the King of Spain. It does not indicate that Yanukovytch had anything politically in common with the other elected presidents other than the mode he came to power.
Electing a head of state is a very limited form of democracy, but if there is to be a head of state popular election is probably the most democratic way of doing it. When either left or right commentators hostile to the coup in Ukraine emphasise that Yanukovytch was elected, they are just emphasising that this form of appointment has more democratic legitimacy than the process by which the current rival claimant to the Ukrainian presidency got there. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
