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The effects of the lack of limitations for the re-election of a member of parliament are softened by the activities of the opposition parties in parliament, as well as by the increased transparency and publicity that the democratic parliaments demonstrate through their activities and primaries inside the party for the election of the candidates. The unwanted, i.e. untrusted, may not be always ousted by the voters but the more independent the candidates, the more the chances for this outcome in elections. In addition, an important subsidiary principle of democracy is that when majorities don’t care (or are lazy to care) the active minorities decide.