Russia does not need the kind of “democracy” practiced in the West, Ella Pamfilova has said
The collective West seems to have abandoned democracy for minority rule and Russia wants nothing to do with it, Ella Pamfilova, head of the Russian Central Election Commission, said on Friday.
“In my understanding, democracy is simply a mechanism of electing a government,” Pamfilova said, “But in the Western understanding …What is happening now in the West? That is not rule by the majority, but by the minority. We don’t need that kind of democracy.”
Pamfilova was speaking at the ‘Territory of Meaning’ forum, and was asked to address a statement by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, whom the New York Times quoted as saying that Russia did not have a democracy, but a “costly bureaucracy.”
“I agree with Dmitry Sergeyevich, we don’t actually have such a system – meaning, what they practice in the West – and don’t need it, seeing how it’s caused the degradation of everything, everywhere,” Pamfilova said.
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