Family leadership was effectively decided by a few members, not elections

Evidence

22. Antonino Calderone describes a meeting in which positions in the family were decided by only a few members (not by the whole family, as other pentiti report) in a way that suggests elections were irrelevant (AC: I, 245). — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 894

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Miniature of the Bonapartist/fiction-election dilemma in governance: formal rituals of consent masking oligarchic reality — echoes the private-judge literature.

Related

• Family leadership positions were decided by a few, making elections a formality (similarity 0.92)

Broader Connections

• Pre-revolution activist politics left paternal authority within the family untouched #corroborates (0.75)
• The FLN avoided racial schism by adopting collective leadership #expands (0.72)