It is reserved for few people, extremely few.

Bolivian President Evo Morales has been forced to resign following days of violent protests after he won re-election by over 10%, giving him victory in the first round. Morales was the first president from the country's indigenous population and had been arrested many times for his support of poor and indigenous people. The 1967 Constitution of Bolivia "states that presidents can serve a maximum of two terms in office, but not back to back". He violated this rule in many ways. A change to the constitution in 2009 allowed the president to serve consecutive terms but no more than two. A referendum in 2016 to drop term limits was rejected by voters but a constitutional court scrapped term limits allowing Morales to run for a fourth time this year. Morales was forced to resign when the police guarding the presidential palace left their posts to join protesters and the army advised him to go. Mexico offered asylum to Morales if he should need it. An ignominious end to a leader who wanted to improve his people who were left behind by the whites and the mixed race mestizo who formed the upper class. "On Sunday, the Organization of American States, which monitored the elections, said it had found evidence of wide-scale data manipulation, and could not certify the previous polls." "However, the Cuban and Venezuelan leaders - who had previously voiced their support for Mr Morales - condemned the events as a 'coup'." Of course, they did. Cuba is a dictatorship where the Castro brothers are guaranteed in excess of 90% of votes, as are other dictators in the world. In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez won a referendum in 2007 allowing him to stand indefinitely by discarding the two term limit. His successor Nicolas Maduro won re-election in 2018 with over 70% of the votes, widely rejected as fixed by his cronies on the election board. Maduro has encouraged senior army officers to make money by smuggling drugs and they are now forced to keep him in power for fear of being extradited to the US if a different president comes to power. Communist Daniel Ortega changed the constitution to get rid of term limits in Nicaragua and won a third term in 2016. Since then he has resorted to repression of journalists to control protests against him and has used the police to shoot and beat protesters. All these criminals swear by democracy. India has no term limits so theoretically a prime minister could be around for life. However, our election system was severely tightened by TN Seshan who expired yesterday. India is one of the few countries to use Electronic Voting Machines which are claimed to be tamper proof, but rumors about machines being swapped were rife during the last general election in April-May. Counting is done behind a fence without any cross check. Abraham Lincoln may have promised that "Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the Earth." It has not perished. It is now for 'few people'. Very few.