Before a vote is counted, this much we know. More results than ever will involve the winning party getting a disproportionate amount of power, considering the number of votes cast for it; fewer people will get what they voted for. The ever more random roulette wheel of our voting system will produce wildly odd winners…
President Donald Trump and the U.S. Supreme Court have destroyed decades of progress in American democracy by gutting the Voting Rights Act last week and instituting a gerrymandering war to win more elections in red states. The Democrats have responded by gerrymandering blue states. The result will be fewer Black candidates elected to office and…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Can anything combat political polarisation in America — or anywhere else? That is a burning question, as partisan hatred keeps rising, poisoning civic life and creating gridlock in Washington. Some “solutions” have been…
Shorouk Express On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch A court in Hong Kong has found the British media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai guilty on multiple charges of sedition and foreign collusion, in a…
Shorouk Express Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday called on Spaniards to defend the “miracle” of their democracy as the divided country marked the 50th anniversary of ex-dictator Francisco Franco’s death. The general’s demise on November 20th, 1975 ended 36 years of authoritarian right-wing rule that followed a devastating 1936-1939 civil war which brought him…
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Shorouk Express “There is a lot of hate in this campaign. I have received threats personally, and been told pro-Europeans should be thrown through a window,” says Simena Trif, coordinator of Dan’s campaign in the area. “The current situation is the fault of the political authorities who have not taken the necessary steps to prevent…
Within the aftermath of revolutionary youth-led protests in 2020–21, Thailand is now ruled by an elected administration led by Paetongtarn Shinawatra‘s coalition authorities. This peculiar coalition contains royalist, military-linked, and clientelistic events, all below the management of the Pheu Thai Occasion (PTP), a centrist and personalistic occasion with pro-reform democratic components. Because the Might 2023…
On 6 December, Romania’s constitutional courtroom cancelled the primary spherical of the presidential election, held on 24 November. This small earthquake got here after the incumbent liberal president, Klaus Iohannis, launched paperwork from the Supreme Council of Nationwide Defence (CSAT) exhibiting that the pro-Russian, anti-EU candidate Călin Georgescu had gained a leg-up on the social…
In distinction to the pro-European protests in Georgia and Maia Sandu’s hard-fought victory in Moldova, Romania gave the pro-EU politicians in energy the chilly shoulder. They did so by voting in shockingly excessive numbers (22,94%) for the ultra-nationalist candidate Călin Georgescu within the first spherical of the presidential election held on 24 November. Sadly for…
