The regime moved to reform parliament into a pliant body.
Evidence
Since the Supreme Court was already in the regime’s pocket and the police under its control, the regime focused its attention to reforming parliament. Since Sharmarkee, Egal, and Yassin knew that they could not buy all MPs all the time and that enough disgruntled MPs could derail their plans, they endeavored to change the constitution in order to turn parliament into a pliant institution. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1030
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- The regime next targeted parliament for constitutional reform (similarity 0.97)
- Rigging elections and court control buys short-term power but creates enemies (similarity 0.79)
- Winning independents and opposition MPs defected to the ruling party. (similarity 0.79)