I mean I wouldn’t really call Assad elected. I mean he technically was but he was the only candidate.
Is that functionally different from the way the elections work in the US though?
Heeeey, “The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them” (Julius Nyerere) reference in the wild!
Ukraine hasn’t had elections in a long while now, hasn’t it, that’s awkward