DEMOCRACY

ELECTIONS AND BEYOND

‘Milei’s victory expresses the rejection of the previous governments’

Yanina Welp | ARGENTINA

‘A strong sense of solidarity endures with those who are left-behind’

Niels Hoogerheijde | THE NETHERLANDS

‘The government is allergic to pluralism and keeps discrediting dissenting voices’

Vukosava Crnjanski | SERBIA

‘The opposition could once again become a credible threat to the authoritarian regime’

Rafael Uzcátegui | VENEZUELA

‘Civil society played a crucial role in ensuring the fairness of the election’

Sonia Horonziak and Filip Pazderski | POLAND

‘The election provided a temporary escape valve, but instability is not over’

Humberto Salazar | ECUADOR

‘The new government must dialogue and seek political agreements that are public, not under the table’

Ruth Hidalgo | ECUADOR

‘Under the old regime civil society was not taken into account’

Pepecy Ogouliguende | GABON

‘This so-called election was a circus and a waste of resources’

Obert Masaraure | ZIMBABWE

SOUTHERN AFRICA

‘Civic space and the conditions for the exercise of human rights were difficult under the former regime’

Georges Mpaga | GABON