The transition from a dictatorship to a multi-party democracy is proving to be difficult.

从专政国家到多党民主国家的转型证明是很艰难的。

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The so-called Red Shirts, led by the United Democratic Front against Dictatorship,or UDD, have the backing of the main parliamentary opposition group, the Puea Thai Party.

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Well, there is at least one more similarity: whether a dictatorship of the Party or a participatory democracy, it would seem that the end game is played out by a very small number of people being bombarded by an outrageous amount of lobbying.

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The party's rule, first in dictatorship and since 1989 in democracy, has been based on a compact: in return for political loyalty, some 200, 000 Paraguayans have government jobs, many of them unnecessary ones.

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By entering talks with Musharraf, Bhutto has offended the party's "long history of struggle against dictatorship, " Khar said.

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