backwardness

"In the 1990s our challenge was authoritarianism. We needed democracy. Today our challenge is inequality and backwardness," Budiman says in his campaign office, ahead of Indonesia's presidential race on 14 February.

His removal comes after Francis spoke of the "backwardness" of some US Catholic church leaders.

At a meeting in August with Jesuit priests in Portugal, he assailed the “backwardness” of some of those conservatives, saying they have replaced faith with ideology.

“Given the polarization in this country, it’s to vote either for 50 years of backwardness or for progress,” he said.

"This will be a victory of progress over backwardness, the future over the past, truth over lies," Mr Sánchez has said.