#democracy
9 posts tagged democracy.
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Ethiopia votes, and the world barely notices
Ethiopia's first elections since the Tigray peace deal matter enormously for Africa's stability, yet the West's attention deficit toward the continent's largest war-to-democracy transition is a strategic failure.
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Hungary's reset: Orbán fades, Brussels pays
The EU releasing €16 billion in frozen funds to Budapest reveals how the bloc rewards political change — but also how transactional its values commitments have always been.
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Mexico's election annulment law: democracy's own worst enemy
Sheinbaum's constitutional amendment allowing elections to be voided for 'foreign interference' is a democratic weapon pointed at democracy itself — and Latin America has seen this before.
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Senegal's democratic slide and Africa's governance gap
The resignation of Senegal's parliament speaker amid worsening political crisis tests whether West Africa's most stable democracy can hold against authoritarian drift.
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Turkey's CHP crackdown and Erdogan's endgame
The storming of CHP headquarters by riot police is not a routine crackdown but a structural acceleration of Turkey's slide toward one-party rule, with consequences for NATO's eastern flank.
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Serbia's long student spring comes to Slavija
Six months after a railway disaster sparked Serbia's biggest protests in a generation, Vucic's grip looks shakier than his election calendar suggests — but the movement faces a structural problem.
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Vijay's Tamil Nadu, and the Indian celebrity-state
An actor has been sworn in as chief minister of one of India's largest states. The film-politics fusion is older than the BJP, and it tells you something the Modi-era debate misses.
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Brazil's Congress and the slow rewrite of accountability
A bill drastically cutting Bolsonaro's 27-year sentence is sold as moderation, but it lands at the seam between democratic prudence and self-protective elite bargaining.
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Brazil's election knife-edge and what it means
A poll showing Lula and Bolsonaro tied ahead of the 2026 election signals that Latin America's largest democracy remains dangerously polarised, with no centre left to hold.