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Re:Lithium producers hit by first big downturn of electric v... by mc32 on Thursday November 14, 2019 @03:42PM (#21539192)
That doesn’t sound like the reason he stepped down. It looks like he didn’t have popular support but people sympathetic to him in order to garner support put out this plausible narrative to garner populist support
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Re:Lithium producers hit by first big downturn of electric v... by cwkoss on Thursday November 14, 2019 @05:33PM (#21540240)
"stepped down" seems extremely euphemistic in this situation
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Re:Lithium producers hit by first big downturn of electric v... by mc32 on Thursday November 14, 2019 @06:06PM (#21540505)
I dunno. A few other leaders-for-life like Mugabe, dos Santos, Zuma all stepped down due to popular pressure. Morals had the Supreme Court rule that the term limits in the constitution violated his human rights to seek a fourth term ! (He had the excuse previously that the new term limits reset the number of terms he had served!)
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