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\u00a0The Associated Press \u00a005\/06\/2024 In a community center in East London, about 20 men gathered for their regular lunch meeting, sipping coffee and tea from mismatched mugs and engaging in an increasingly popular pastime in the world\u2019s democracies: Complaining about their government. They feel estranged from the country\u2019s leadership \u2014 its wealthy prime minister and their members of parliament. \u201cIt feels like you are second-class people. Our MPs don\u2019t represent us people. Political leaders don\u2019t understand what we go through,\u201d said Barrie Stradling, 65. \u201cDo they listen to people? I don\u2019t think they do.\u2019\u2019 In a coffee shop in Jakarta, Ni Wayan Suryatini, 46, bemoaned the results of the recent election, in which the son of Indonesia\u2019s former president ascended to the country\u2019s vice presidency and the opposition parties seemed… <\/p>\n

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\u00a0The Associated Press \u00a005\/06\/2024 In a community center in East London, about 20 men gathered for their regular lunch meeting, sipping coffee and tea from mismatched mugs and engaging in an increasingly popular pastime in the world\u2019s democracies: Complaining about their government. They feel estranged from the country\u2019s leadership \u2014 its wealthy prime minister and their members of parliament. \u201cIt feels like you are second-class people. Our MPs don\u2019t represent us people. Political leaders don\u2019t understand what we go through,\u201d said Barrie Stradling, 65. \u201cDo they listen to people? I don\u2019t think they do.\u2019\u2019 In a coffee shop in Jakarta, Ni Wayan Suryatini, 46, bemoaned the results of the recent election, in which the son of Indonesia\u2019s former president ascended to the country\u2019s vice presidency and the opposition parties seemed... <\/p>\n

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