DEMOCRACY

ELECTIONS AND BEYOND

Bangladesh: election with a foregone conclusion

Ruling party’s win guaranteed by pre-election crackdown

The Netherlands latest country to tilt to the right

Right-wing populist comes shock first in election

Argentina plunges into the unknown

Far-right outsider wins presidential runoff

Argentina: unpalatable choices in election plagued with uncertainty

Far-right outsider could still win 19 November presidential runoff

Ecuador: an end to instability?

Election result brings opportunity to address violence – but time is short and cost of failure is high

Hope for change in Poland

Civil society expects improvements in civic space, the rule of law and the rights of excluded groups

All change in New Zealand’s election

Political volatility rises under cost-of-living crisis

Slovakia: election points to regressive turn ahead

Pro-Russia populist frontrunner to form new government

Maldives election: what now for civil society?

Shift towards China signalled in presidential race result

Gabon: the end of a dictatorship… and the beginning of another?

Military coups rarely lead to democracy