"gerontocrat" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 98:",
          "text": "In Poland, a so-called anti-Zionist urge proved that the Stalinist gerontocrats would stoop even to Hitlerite tactics to repress dissent and prolong their sterile and boring hold on power.",
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          "ref": "2013 May 11, “What a waste”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 12:",
          "text": "India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.",
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