Can Italy's new government be considered "democratic"?

[Хahar 🤔]

In the 1920s and '30s, were the innumerable right-wing French governments propped up by the Radical-Socialists democratic? The answer to that question is the same as the answer to this one.

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It's democratic, because it's operating under a democratic constitution. The fact it's a technocratic government doesn't change it.

Monti was confirmed by democratically-elected parliament.

There have been a number of points brought up in this thread against that line of reasoning.

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The voters don't elect their government, they elect their representatives, who then go on and a majority of them anoint their leader as Prime Minister and he goes on to form a government, which the representatives can throw out whenever they want.

You reminded me quote from The West Wing. "We live in republic, not democracy. People doesn't make decisions, they elect people who do".

The question isn't whether the government is republican; it clearly is. The question is whether it's democratic.