This story offers the richest visual metaphor potential: a new leader inheriting the very same overpowered tools that were used to build an authoritarian system, now tasked with dismantling it. The irony of using a rigged system's own architecture against itself is universally legible and deeply satirical. It also has broad international relevance as a parable about democratic backsliding and recovery.

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