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l am not a native English speaker and l'm troubling in understanding this paragraph:
"That a goverment has declared itself transitional bespeaks a choise (or at least the appearance of a choise) not to translate its de facto control to de jure power "because the legitimating myth it invokes in order to pretend to power involves the preformance of certain principles and procedures which have not yet been completed"
Did anyone understand what does this bubbling mean - cause l'm tottally confeused....
thanks in advance..........

Answer 1

Dear Rona:

I'll try and translate:

"That a goverment has declared itself transitional bespeaks a choise (or at least the appearance of a choise) not to translate its de facto control to de jure power "because the legitimating myth it invokes in order to pretend to power involves the preformance of certain principles and procedures which have not yet been completed"

When a government calls itself "transitional," that indicates or appears to indicate a choice not to turn it's temporary control into permanent control, because the fiction which gives it temporary power cannot confer permanent power until certain principals and procedures have been completed.

I tried.

-j.

Answer 2

It sounds like this government is trying to say that it is deliberately imposing on itself a "term limit". That is, the government refuses to declare itself the permanent and legitimate government.

Are elections coming up soon? The term "de facto" is Latin for "in fact", and "de jure" is Latin for "legitimate" or "legal".

So a "de facto" government is the functional government that is actually running things in reality, while a "de jure" government is the proper legal government.

Sounds like the person who wrote this does not speak English as a first language, either.

Answer 3

Here is what it means:

Countries that call themselves "transitional" [which are countries moving from dictatorships to democracies] are claiming to have made a choice to move to a better government. Those countries are claiming their dictators' absolute powers are not going to be made permenent. Countries that are really democracies, however, have certain "due process" laws that allow citizens to feel protected from abuse by their governments. Since these dictatorships do not have those due process protections, their citizens are not free. But claiming to be transitional allows the countries to continue operating as dictatorships, indefinitely, while claiming to be in the process of developing due process. In other words, the claim to be a transitional government is a lie to keep dictators in power by making the people think things will get better soon.

Answer 4

Basically it means that by a government calling itself transitional it is saying it will not retain the power of government or even it's form but will only retain control until a new government has been established because a transitional government by claiming the name is promising to only hold power until the promises of new leadership have been performed

Answer 5

Well... it looks like noones smart on here. And i surely dont know what you are talking about.