plebiscite

It had all the hallmarks of an authoritarian Potemkin plebiscite.

When Ukraine’s Kremlin-friendly president was ousted in 2014 by mass protests that Moscow called a U.S.-instigated coup, Putin responded by sending troops to overrun Crimea and calling a plebiscite on joining Russia, which the West dismissed as illegal.

This made it more a plebiscite than an actual election, with posters of Hadi above each ballot box.

In April’s parliamentary plebiscite, Mr. Lee’s party will seek to expand its current majority in the National Assembly.

There was the overwhelming rejection of that text last year in a national plebiscite.