Military juntas seldom protect human rights, but they justify their coups for this reason
. The principles that should be embodied by a constitutional republic include a system of checks and balances. This system ensures that there is no hoarding of power and limits the personalisation of public office. Power has to be constantly justified and revised. In the absence of a system that is checked, the people’s democratic rights are effectively compromised. Assuming that a person has been elected through democratic means they have a duty to the people.
Guinea has an ingrained culture of a lack of accountability and transparency. When the people continuously accept the removal of sitting presidents they undermine the power of their own constitution. They undermine their own power of decision-making; they could have called for their presidents’ removal through constitutional means.. This is normally the first step in the remedial process of removing someone from public office.
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