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| | Botswana History Page 10: Politics |
 | | Botswana is a unitary state with a multi-party parliamentary system, an executive presidency, and executive machinery dominated by a cabinet of ministers chaired by the president. |
 | | Since independence Botswana has exhibited strong elements of democracy - accountability of government to the electorate through regular free elections held every five years, relatively uncorrupt bureaucracy accountable to government, government and judicial respect for human rights and the rule of law, and the economic underpinning of increasing resources distributed through government. |
 | | The political and economic alignments of Botswana's foreign policy are indicated by the places to which it has sent resident ambassadors - originally New York and Washington, London and Lusaka in the 1960s; followed by Brussels, Harare and Stockholm in the 1980s, and by Windhoek, Moscow and Beijing in the early 1990s. |
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