Some elections are cementing the status quo. Others are shaking up the establishment.
It’s a show of democracy in action. But this year has also revealed increasing democratic backsliding, with fears of countries barreling toward becoming one-party states or holding elections not seen as free or fair. Many elections saw accusations of rigging, by watchdogs or defeated parties, as well as rampant disinformation and the suppression of opposition.in snap legislative elections, which were called by Macron after his alliance suffered a defeat against the far-right in June E.
After many of India’s nearly 1 billion voters took to more than a million polling stations over six weeks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Partya third term. But the results marked a rare setback for him and his party. Whereas Modi comfortably won a majority in Parliament in the past two elections, the BJP lost an outright majority and was forced to form a coalition government for the first time.
Former security minister José Raúl Mulino of the right-wing Realizing Goals party won the presidency, replacing outgoing President Laurentino Cortizo of the center-left Democratic Revolutionary Party. Mulino won the election as a last-minute candidate standing in for former president Ricardo Martinelli, who was barred from running after being sentenced for money laundering.
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