My position has been that modern "representative" governments are so construed to always favour the oligarchy. Calling a modern republic a "democracy" is just PR. Electoral systems will always favour the elites and their interests, their freedoms, at the expense of the commoners.

In the States there are two major elite parties, one which openly favours the elite and another that takes a wink at the masses for a modicum of social peace- and I do not say social justice.

I see no reason why democracy must be qualified as such through electoral systems. Electoral systems tend to favour oligarghic republics. Smudgy fingers every four years is a joke, all the more so when exported with bombs.