Democracy is more than just the presence and establishment or proliferations of political parties.Democracy needs, freedom of expression and opinion, conduct of free and fair elections (Not fraudulent or rigged ones), participation of citizenry in running the government, (Not usiri katika mikataba ya madini na ugawaji hovyo wa rasilimali zetu kwa wageni bila wananchi kujua kinachoendelea), respect for the rule of laws.Those are the major pillars of democracy in a contemporary world, na kipimo kinafanya kwa kuyatazama hayo yote.Huwezi kutumia kigezo kimoja then ukajisifu kuwa unatekeleza democracy kwenye nchi yako.Nchi nyingi za kiafrika ikiwemo Tanzania zina practice kwa sehemu kubwa ambacho tunaweza kukiita pseudo-democracy, na kusema ukweli hakuna culture ya kuheshimu democracy ya kweli bali kuna caricuture of democracy.