{"id":2757,"date":"2013-07-09T12:04:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T17:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2013-07-09T12:04:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T17:04:11","slug":"on-legitimacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/07\/09\/on-legitimacy","title":{"rendered":"On legitimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Mr. Maduro&#8217;s presidency is still viewed as illegitimate by roughly half of the Venezuelan electorate, who voted for challenger Henrique Capriles in April.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Mary Anastasia O&#8217;Grady in <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/the_americas.html\">Why Venezuela Offers Asylum to Snowden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So in Malaysia, 51% voted for the opposition, but thanks to the constituency-based voting system, the ruling coalition secured 60% of the seats.<\/p>\n<p>Do Malaysians view Mr. Najib&#8217;s leadership as illegitimate?<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20On%20legitimacy&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F07%2F09%2Fon-legitimacy&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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So in Malaysia, 51% voted for the opposition, but thanks to the constituency-based voting system, the ruling coalition secured 60% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20On%20legitimacy&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F07%2F09%2Fon-legitimacy&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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