gerontocrat

English

From geronto- +‎ -crat, after gerontocracy.

gerontocrat (plural gerontocrats)

A member of a gerontocracy; an aged leader, especially one clinging on to power or ruling only by virtue of age.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 98:
  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.
- 2013 May 11, “What a waste”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8835, page 12:
  India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.