• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      The democratic republic of North Korea is the strongest democracy known to man. Why would they lie?

  • lumpenproletariat@quokk.auM
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    “From the age of 14 onwards, there should be no impediment; everyone has sexual relations, [male] teachers with pupils, female teachers with pupils, and between pupils too. That’s fine,” he told journalists after the vote in congress. He later said his remarks had been taken out of context.

    Sweet fuck, has this dickshit not heard of power dynamics?

    And why so obsessed with students/teachers? Was he formally a teacher or something sus.

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      there are a lot of “left” politicians in LATAM right now that just say stuff like this, in Mexico we elected one them in the previous term, I remember Andres Manuel saying that child marriage was not a problem in certain regions of Mexico because that was their local custom

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    Can anyone from Peru weigh in on this? What was the public reaction to this quote? Is his platform otherwise pretty solid?

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    How do you get elected to an interim post? I thought interim posts were ones you temporarily assume until an election can be called.