misgovern

It is an inevitable temptation, in a resource-rich country like Russia, for leaders to misgovern for reasons of political or financial greed.

A senior Pakistani official in Islamabad said General Musharraf and his allies, who were surprised by the coalition's electoral success, felt that the best way to undermine the Islamists was to "let them misgovern for another four years."

Unluckily for those who misgovern us in our own homeland the fact that I cannot leave and return voluntarily to the island where I was born is, in itself, the most irrefutable witness to the fact that unfortunately, nothing has changed in the autocratic system ruling my country.