Iceland gained independence from Denmark and became a parliamentary democracy in 1944.
冰岛于 1944 年脱离丹麦独立,成为议会民主制国家。
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As a former British colony, Canada's system of government was based on the British system of parliamentary democracy.
作为前英国殖民地,加拿大的政体以英国的议会民主制度为基础。
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A democrat and consensus builder, Adolfo Suarez was handpicked in 1976 by King Juan Carlos after the death of General Franco to steer the country towards the parliamentary democracy.
1976 年,在佛朗哥将军去世后,阿道夫·苏亚雷斯 (Adolfo Suarez) 被国王胡安·卡洛斯 (King Juan Carlos) 亲手挑选为民主主义者和共识缔造者,以引导该国走向议会民主。
Representative democracy (also indirect democracy, representative republic, or psephocracy) is a variety of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy. All modern Western-style democracies are types of representative democracies; for example, the United Kingdom is a crowned republic and Ireland is a parliamentary republic.