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Popular protest about unpleasant person in charge (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

democratic

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'popular' is the definition.
('democratic' can be similar in meaning to 'popular')

'person in charge' is the wordplay.
'person' becomes 'democrat' (democrat is a kind of person**).
'in charge' becomes 'ic'.
'democrat'+'ic'='DEMOCRATIC'

'protest about unpleasant' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for democratic that I've seen before include "party in US" , "Popular" , "Enabling the will of the people" , "23 [JFK] was" , "Egalitarian" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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