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We've had a parliament since 1950. (There was one, in name, before that too but everybody were assigned by the dictators orders. Elections were a formality.) It didn't stop the military caste to intervene in 1960, 1971, 1980 and 1997 though.

The horrible training system and the way mass media works won't let people awake from nationalism and it by-product. Nowadays things are apparently improving but that doesn't change the fact that we're half a century behind the world.
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