Haskel spoke from Chile, where she is heading a Knesset delegation, and said: “Democracy for me is the opportunity and the possibility of every individual to voice their opinion to express their ideology, except an ideology of violence against other people.”Svetlova focused on a different aspect of democracy, saying: “For me, democracy is a constant quest for equality. It's looking at the weakest sectors of society and strengthening them, empowering them...it's protecting the rights of minorities making them never feel strangers in their own country. “Democracy for me is the right of the press to cover every possible subject and to criticize every elected official,” Svetlova added. “Democracy for me is the Israeli Knesset.”ראש המשלחת ל @IPUparliament ח"כ @MKNachmanShai על דמוקרטיה #DemocracyDay Delegation head MK Shai talks democracy pic.twitter.com/CENir4uOZb
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Jellin said that, for him, democracy is “to feel freedom and be a free person, to know that we can criticize everyone, including the government, without fearing that something will happen to me.”ח"כ @KseniaSvetlova מדברת דמוקרטיה בערבית عضو الكنيست سفيتلوفا تتكلم عن الديمقراطية #DemocracyDay @IPUparliament pic.twitter.com/g8MDchiPcM
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Margi said democracies “put the citizen in the center of its priorities.”“A democracy that succeeds in granting equal opportunities to all of its citizens is a fully-realized democracy,” he added. The MKs recorded the videos as part of Democracy 2030, a project of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, an international body for lawmakers, examining the past, present and future of democracy.ח"כ @HaimJelin מדבר דמוקרטיה בספרדית @IPUparliament #DemocracyDay pic.twitter.com/dw1PJps92C
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