A Labour Party source said: “The NEC has a duty to safeguard the integrity of CLPs, to ensure that they are properly run in line with the party’s rules and procedures and can operate fully, inclusively and democratically.”

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cabinet-reshuffle-live-sunak-wallace-b2402401.html

Almog’s video starts off with an anguished appeal to overseas Jewry to rally round an effort to protect Israeli democracy…against Israel’s democratically elected government.

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/columns/into-the-fray-martin-sherman/into-the-fray-mika-malicious-mendacious-and-misleading/2023/05/14/

Any hopes of Putin being ousted and replaced with a democratically elected leader friendly to the West were entirely unrealistic, Mr Arnold stressed.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1715730/vladimir-putin-news-russia-ukraine-war-update-yevgeny-prigozhin-ramzan-kadyrov-crimea

A storm of controversy arose on Israeli media after a video was posted on social media portraying the possible consequences of the recent calls for IDF refusal in protest of the democratically elected government.

Source: https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/2210208/storm-arises-in-wake-of-video-portraying-outcome-of-idf-refusal.html

Beijing views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, a claim the government in Taipei strongly rejects, and routinely denounces high-level meetings between Taiwanese and foreign leaders and officials.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/chinas-foreign-minister-both-sides-of-the-taiwan-strait-belong-to-china/article_ca22fd9d-701e-5a7e-b355-f6d4e1f09b8d.html

Call the United States a democracy and a chorus of right-wing fanatics will stridently insist that this is a “republic not a democracy,” never mind that our representatives are democratically elected.

Source: https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/letters-to-editor/letter-to-the-editor-our-democracy-is-under-attack/article_b24c6e6e-dba9-11ed-9fc0-776dd096a66b.html

China claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory with no right to state-to-state ties, a position Taipei strongly rejects.

Source: https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/03/26/china-opens-ties-with-honduras/

China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has ramped up military pressure in the past three years to try to assert its sovereignty claim.

Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1761324/taiwan-war-games-to-focus-on-piercing-blockade-preserving-forces

Days after mutinous soldiers ousted Niger's democratically elected president, uncertainty is mounting about the country's future and some are calling out the junta's reasons for seizing control.

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/regional-global-powers-decry-nigers-coup-countrys-future-101846403

Drawing on the charisma, celebrity, and political skills of his second wife, the actor Evita Perón, Col. Juan Perón won the 1946 presidential election, becoming the first populist leader in history to become a democratically elected head of state.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/12/09/javier-milei-is-the-worlds-latest-wannabe-fascist/

Fears have been mounting over the health and detention conditions of democratically elected Bazoum, his wife and 20-year-old son since the military seized power and took them captive on July 26.

Source: https://newsday.com.ng/niger-junta-finally-grants-bazoum-access-to-his-doctor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=niger-junta-finally-grants-bazoum-access-to-his-doctor

Following the July coup in Niger, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) activated a standby force and threatened violence if the democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum was not reinstated and constitutional order restored.

Source: https://newsdiaryonline.com/niger-burkina-faso-mali-form-military-pact/

He assured Nigerians that with Tinubu as the country’s 16th democratically elected president, their future was guaranteed.

Source: https://www.pulse.ng/news/politics/omole-says-vote-for-tinubu-not-misplaced-as-apc-dissolves-campaign-council/vqxrfp0

He called on the junta to commit to a ceasefire while opening negotiations to hand power back to the democratically elected government.

Source: https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-fails-to-contain-flower-strikes-on-suu-kyis-birthday.html

Herschel Walker and John Fetterman both democratically won legitimately contested primaries for the United States Senate — democracy fair and square.

Source: https://spectator.org/democracy-and-its-lunkheads/

He said Kuki demands could be solved democratically and politically.

Source: https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/bangladesh-reports-growing-insurgency-on-myanmar-border.html

If we in Scotland are removed from our family of nations against our will – against our clearly democratically expressed view – independence will be our only route back.

Source: https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/independence-is-scotlands-only-route-back-into-the-european-union-alyn-smith-4278430

Information Nigeria reports that in the last two months, the military had taken over democratically elected governments in Gabon and Niger Republic citing poor leadership and mismanagement of the countries’ resources as takeover reasons.

Source: https://www.informationng.com/2023/09/democracy-with-lack-of-integrity-bad-governance-nepotism-favouritism-sit-tight-syndrome-fuelling-coups-in-africa-obasanjo.html

"It was agreed democratically by ward and county councillors and used up hours and hours of officer time.

Source: https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/23545977.colchester-crouch-street-cycle-lane-shelved-essex-county-council/?ref=rss

Lothar de Maiziere, the first and only democratically elected leader of East Germany, at a German reunification celebration on October 3rd, 2020.

Source: https://www.thelocal.de/20220930/unity-day-how-october-3rd-became-germanys-national-holiday