The Carter center monitored most of the Balkan elections and found them free and fair, but I take your point. Establshed stable democracies don’t have armed rebellions. But there is contium in democratic government and among the shakey democracy the threat of armed rebellion acts as incentive for the losing party to give up power. I’m thinking of country like Turkey, where the military acted a protector of the democracy. Although I am not sure that’s particularly true now
