Why Do Dictators Bother to Hold Elections? | “It Becomes This Strange Pantomime”
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 Published On Mar 8, 2024

What happened with Google's AI chatbot 'Gemini' this week? Should incarcerated people have the right to vote? What is the point of dictators like Vladimir Putin or Ayatollah Ali Khamenei holding elections?

Rory and Alastair answer all these questions and more in this week's Question Time episode of The Rest is Politics.

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00:00 Intro
00:34 Google's ChatBot
10:08 Far-Right in Portugal
13:07 Prisoners human rights
15:00 Indefinite prison sentences
16:24 PMQ's
20:34 How dictators use elections
21:53 Iran Election
24:36 Ofcom
28:45 Ageing populations
32:35 MP strengths and weaknesses

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