Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
Related Topics
...His opposition, led by the Indian National Congress, has joined forces with more than two dozen other left-of-centre and regional parties in a fractious electoral alliance....
...The Democratic Alliance, the main opposition party, said “special leave” could only be granted through a parliamentary motion, and it was “untenable” for Mapisa-Nqakula to remain in her post....
...polls on Sunday to elect a new president in a contentious vote delayed by outgoing leader Macky Sall, whose decision sparked furious demonstrations in a country long regarded as one of Africa’s more stable democracies...
...“A third term for Modi will finish off whatever semblance of democracy is left in India,” said Gokhale....
...Gandhi said there was “no democracy in India today”, adding: “The people of India are being robbed of their constitution and democratic structure.”...
...One of democracy’s promises is precisely the freedom to innovate....
...Context: Montenegro’s centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) won a legislative election earlier this month but fell far short of a majority....
...Outgoing President Macky Sall congratulated Faye on social media site X, calling his triumph a “victory for Senegalese democracy”....
...Geordin Hill-Lewis, the mayor of Cape Town for the opposition Democratic Alliance, described Ramaphosa’s speech as “a work of fiction”....
...These groups were potentially more interested in territorial gains and autonomy than revolution and democracy, analysts said....
...The US president warned Americans were facing a “rare” moment, when “freedom and democracy are under attack, both at home and overseas, at the very same time”....
...In the political sphere, candidates now have the “ability to dismiss a damaging piece of audio or video,” says Bret Schafer, a propaganda expert at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, part of the German...
...It has this huge network of security alliances with democracies in Asia, in Europe....
...South Africa’s president has chosen May 29 as the date for national elections, setting the stage for what could be the closest-fought vote since the country became a democracy three decades ago....
...Nato countries will be unable to plug the gap created by the US withholding military aid for Ukraine, the alliance’s secretary-general has warned....
...Dodik receives support from Russia, whose main goal in Bosnia is to keep the state divided and outside western alliance systems. Ethnic politics prevail What’s gone wrong in Bosnia?...
...François Conradie, an analyst at the Oxford Economics Africa consultancy, said Faye’s win was a victory for Senegalese democracy....
...Letter from the editor How will democracy fare in 2024?...
...The leader of Germany’s new left-wing populist party the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) criticised Olaf Scholz’s increasingly unpopular government and called for an immediate end to the Ukraine war at...
...in Ukraine and his country’s moves towards becoming a self-styled “illiberal democracy”....
...Yusuf Tuggar, Nigeria’s minister of foreign affairs, said efforts to tackle the backslide in democracy highlighted by the wave of coups that have removed eight west and central African leaders since 2020...
...Neither Moscow nor Minsk has forgotten that a peaceful pro-democracy uprising in 2020 threatened to sweep away the tyrant of Belarus....
...Biden has a centrist record he can run on, including domestic industrial policies and international alliance-building that have bipartisan appeal....
...Stand for democracy. Stand up to a so-called leader hell-bent on weakening American security,” he said: “History is watching.”...
...Some rightwing Conservative MPs in the UK reacted with dismay to what they saw as their government’s weak response to China hacking British democracy....
International Edition