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Forms of Government

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Today the Middle East is mainly a republic nation with some dictators that still hold power, but for 500 years the Ottoman Empire had complete control. For centuries the Ottoman Empire had a strong but also flexible government. Things finally changed in 1798, when European countries came in contact with Middle Eastern politics. The Ottoman Empire finally left the Middle East and went to Britain and France. This is when the governments changed and essentially life for people changed. Monarchies came into power which brought problems. But over the years some switched and became republics such as Iraq Egypt and Iran. But some countries still continued to be monarchs such as Saudi Arabia in which they still have absolute power. More about Republic governments is people elect their officials and the officials can then turn out to be the president. Other governments in the Midde East include Democratic, Constitutional Emirate, Jamahiriya and Coalition. A Democratic government usually has a prime minister that is picked by represenatives not the people though. The Constitutional Emirate is a government that elects and gets rid of prime ministers which is known as the emirate. In the country Kuwait their prime minister is Nasir Muhanmmad and he got elected by the emirate. The Jamahiriya government is known as "a state of the masses", this government is in Libya where they have been following this government for centuries. The last government in the Middle East is the Coalition government. The Coalition government is when political parties work together to help their countries and their societys and if theirs any problems with other countries.