DEMOCRACY

ELECTIONS AND BEYOND

‘Without channels for constructive engagement, this crisis of legitimacy could empower far-right populist forces’

Stefanos Loukopoulos | GREECE

‘We help combat disinformation aimed at eroding trust in democratic institutions’

Beatrice Wayne | CANADA

‘Noboa did not receive a blank cheque: he will have to show tangible results’

Jorge Tapia de los Reyes | ECUADOR

‘Political leadership may have changed, but the state still controls the narrative and excludes civil society’

Dumiso Gatsha | BOTSWANA

SOUTHERN AFRICA

‘Rebuilding trust in democracy requires reclaiming power from the few to ensure it delivers for all’

Soheïla Comninos | USA

‘Civil society works day in and day out to build democracy’

Taulant Hoxha | KOSOVO

‘The international community can support a democratic transition by backing a truly participatory process’

Alix Boucher | GUINEA

‘A key element of resistance to the far right is the firewall – which a major party has just breached’

Cynthia Freund-Möller and Matthias Meyer | GERMANY

‘Democratic rules shouldn’t be changed just because they are inconvenient to those in power’

Munashe Masiyiwa | ZIMBABWE

SOUTHERN AFRICA

‘This election campaign offers two opposing visions of how to tackle insecurity’

Jorge Tapia de los Reyes | ECUADOR