This sense of having a mandate encouraged Morales to exercise power based on the simple principle of majority rule.

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This old revolutionary slogan was, it seems, a guiding principle for the leaders of Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian majority during the dark years of direct rule from Serbia which followed the suppression of the province's autonomy in 1989.

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