Word: partiless
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...Nepal is a democracy at least in name. Using the official state terminology, Shah calls it a "partiless democracy"--partiless because every political figure serves the King, a democracy because every citizen indirectly elects a local, regional and state-wide panchayat (council) representative. But in the constitution and in practice, the sole voice of authority is the King, the most revered of all national traditions, even more than the Hinduism professed by 90 per cent of the population...
...people. He announced that for the period of a year, he would suspend his constitutional right to censorship pending a national referendum, (the first direct country-wide vote in two decades, and only the second in Nepal's history) to determine if the people like the existing partiless system. In the meantime, the government is doing some politicking of its own: at a recent pro-partiless rally, a panchayat minister declared that "The supreme objective of the multi-party system is to capture power whereas that of the partiless panchayat system is to promote national welfare and respect...
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