“Democracy is a process where gradually you build your institutions, gradually you make changes suiting your socio-historical and cultural specificities. Our socio-economic, socio-cultural, the historical trajectory we’ve taken is that we are changing our democracy gradually,” he said. “People believe that when you have the ballot box; you elect your leaders, you change them frequently, voila, democracy. “So, indeed, the ballot does not stop the bullet, that’s one of my principled things I’m leaving with you today. You can have your ballot, if it’s not free and fair and you accept it, the bullet can come,” he said.
