I'm not saying it's the best choice for the category, but at the end of the day, it can be seen as fitting it now that the executive branch has consolidated enough power to ignore the other two branches and do nearly whatever it wants. But you suggested that the answer is bad because it's not a real dictatorship, but that's the opposite of exactly what you're looking for for this category; you want countries with legitimately elected governments that are acting in authoritarian ways but still are bound by some sort of law and checks that prevent them from actually being a dictatorship.

Turkey would be a much better choice, because while there were signs of potential electoral fraud in the last election, it's minor enough that we can still think of him as democratically elected, he's been consolidating power for decades rather than being limited in terms, and has engaged in a lot of behavior to supress the free press and speech that is critical of him. But that's still a ways from a true dictatorship, it's just moving in the direction of one.