Does Yeltsin count? He resigned voluntarily before his term was over, and in the resignation speech he said basically “we thought it’d be easier to transition Russia to a democracy, but it turned out really difficult and many of you suffered, I apologize for that”.
That said, I agree with you, this kind of thing seems very rare.
Does Yeltsin count? He resigned voluntarily before his term was over, and in the resignation speech he said basically “we thought it’d be easier to transition Russia to a democracy, but it turned out really difficult and many of you suffered, I apologize for that”.
That said, I agree with you, this kind of thing seems very rare.