Gerontocracy

Gerontocracy is a system of government in which old people make the policies and control the country. It may be ageist as much as it may be conservative.

Gerontocracy Media

Leonid Brezhnev (then 72) and Dmitry Ustinov (then 71) at the 1979 Revolution Day Parade
Meeting of the seven representatives of the Warsaw Pact countries in 1987: Gustáv Husák, Todor Zhivkov, Erich Honecker, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Wojciech Jaruzelski, and János Kádár. Their average age then was 69.
Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the oldest people inaugurated as President of the United States
MedalCeremony 1 011520 (36 of 69) (49396087906)
118th Congress Number of representatives by age
Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei was 81 years old during this Friday service in 2020.

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