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Replacing one unelected prime minister with another might have seemed a democratic deficit too far, forcing an early election.

The weapons, training and cash given to his unelected administration by the American and European governments are inadequate.

It is stating the obvious to say that appointing an unelected technocrat is less than ideal.

Even so, some wonder if such matters ought to be in the hands of unelected judges at all.

And unlike those peers, who are now led by unelected technocrats, it has chosen its own captain to guide it through the storm.

Who, outsiders might reasonably ask, gives this unelected body the right to intervene so deeply into spheres of sovereign politics?

Unelected power was necessary to whip Italy into shape, he told Italians. Their "country needs reforms, not elections" .

Second, as an unelected usurper of the presidency, Mr Musharraf saw the mainstream political parties as his chief political rivals.

It depends on unelected life senators for its majority in the upper house and so is vulnerable to even a small rebellion on its own side.

This week, Mr Prodi won a majority thanks to support from unelected life senators and from rebels within the centre-right opposition.

Achieving even that will require China's unelected, secretive leaders to radically change their state-dominated economy.

Politicians could chafe at the Fed's power: why, they might ask, should unelected officials choose who benefits from taxpayers' money?

There is nothing wrong with being unelected : you need an executive in every system.

WOULD the Labour Party really consider foisting a second unelected prime minister on Britain?

Second, she must persuade a fat majority of unelected super delegates to overturn the will of Democratic primary voters.

His freedom of action is also curtailed by a range of unelected bodies mostly controlled by hardline clerics.

Iran, remember, is at best a quasi-democracy: in parallel with the elected system exists another system that is unelected.

Europe is losing a war between its elected governments and unelected rating agencies.

The real power in Europe isn't wielded by MEPs or by unelected officials but by male-dominated corporations.

It was followed by army-backed unelected technocrats.

It also puts enormous power in the hands of unelected EU bureaucrats, who can choose who gets a license and who doesn't.

Even so, support for this crew of unelected spoilers has been rising.

But Labour MPs fear that another unelected prime minister would have to go to the country soon.

These are supposedly democratically elected but party regulations still give unelected party chiefs the final say over village affairs.

But until then, and whether one likes the idea of unelected senators or not, they still have a role to play in our parliamentary system.

And so the powers of this unelected and unaccountable position would grow.

Maybe none, but that is why the unelected governments in Italy and Greece are interesting.

The defence budget, which was increased by 40% this year, is being overseen by the unelected Gotabhaya Rajapakse.

Karora's khap panchayat, an unelected taboo-enforcing council, ordered the killing of another same-gotra couple last year;