Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto (left) speaks to reporters with Vice President-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka (second from left) as they arrive at the General Election Commission’s plenary session after challenges to his main rivals against his election victory in Jakarta on April 24.
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Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto (left) speaks to reporters with Vice President-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka (second from left) as they arrive at the General Election Commission’s plenary session after challenges to his main rivals against his election victory in Jakarta, April 24.
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Prabowo Subianto will become president of Indonesia in the fall. Critics fear the former general of a previous authoritarian government could roll back democracy. This poses a challenge to the United States, which once trained and supported Prabowo and then banned him from entering the United States for twenty years.
And a televised song contest in Venezuela in which every song is about the authoritarian president.
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