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Turnout is declining in many countries; in the case of elections to the European Parliament, the level of voter participation is so risibly low as to call into question the legitimacy of the result.
In most countries, this is clearly very different from what elections looked like twenty, let alone fifty, years ago.
Democracy needs time, not just for elections, but for deliberation and the exercise of checks and balances.
New parties may arise and breathe more life into elections and representative government.
Ukraine’s Democratic ChoiceSuddenly, Ukraine faces another stark choice: dismiss the government and parliament and hold new elections, or see the country’s independence surrendered bit by bit.
New elections to secure our democracy are the only way forward, both for us and for advancing Europe’s interest in seeing that genuine democracy takes root in the nations of the former Soviet Union.
In fact, the relatively weak support for populist parties in German elections obscures an undercurrent of dissatisfaction in German society that bears striking similarities to the anger that has fueled the rise of anti-establishment parties in Europe and beyond.
September’s federal elections had already weakened Merkel.
At that point, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier may call new elections if he thinks Merkel cannot lead a stable government.
The government has freed political prisoners, held elections (with more on the way), begun economic reform, and is intensively courting foreign investment.
So far, that transformation, initiated following legislative elections in November 2010, has been breathtaking.
Seldom do democratic elections give as clear a message as that in Greece.
The CDU has lately suffered a string of humiliating losses in state elections, while the AfD has made substantial gains.
Of course, elections that lead to illiberal outcomes, and even to despotism, are not a new phenomenon.
Moreover, problematic elections constitute a specific challenge for the West, which is simultaneously the bearer of a universal democratic message and the culprit of an imperialist past that undermines that message’s persuasiveness and utility.
In our globalized world, the potential divorce between elections and democracy has assumed a new dimension.
With instantaneous communication and access to information, the less legitimate a regime, the greater will be the temptation for it to manipulate, if not fabricate, the results of elections.
The distance that separates the West from countries that rely on sham elections is not only geographic, religious, or cultural; it is chronological.
For example, Putin recently abolished elections in Russia’s provinces.
The Kremlin black art of manipulating elections by deception and other means – called “political technology” by locals – will now be used only in other countries’ elections in, as these are the only real elections the Kremlin has to worry about, so neutered have Russia’s own votes become.
The justification for canceling elections in Russia is the need to fight terrorism – the end that now justifies all means.
We now have a Palestinian leadership legitimized by elections, one that appears to be opposed to using terrorism as a tool to achieve political aims.
American presidential elections provide a near perfect test to understand the difference between European and Asian worldviews, even if the two continents are far from united internally.
The AKP, by contrast, has won the last three elections and is expected to triumph in next year’s poll, as well.
If American voters, as seems likely, take away the Republicans’ majority in the House of Representatives in the midterm elections this November, the chances of saving the international order will be even higher.
Malaysia’s institutional problems extend to elections.
From Egypt to Ukraine and beyond, there is a deepening global perception that America’s commitment to fighting racism and intolerance, defending human rights, upholding good governance, and promoting free and fair elections has faltered under Obama.
The Law and Justice Party (PiS) has just won Poland’s parliamentary and presidential elections, while populist and nationalist political forces could gain the upper hand in elections in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia next year.
Leftist populists in Slovakia, represented by Robert Fico’s Smer (Direction) party, which is leading in opinion polls ahead of the next year’s elections, will most likely reach a similar conclusion.
Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party, which could win Hungary’s elections next spring, provides a particularly instructive example.
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