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Most of us are familiar with the concept of insuring our valuable assets, be it our house, car, or health. Professionals and businesses can also buy insurance to protect themselves against liability or loss. However, despite being a critical asset of democracies, a comprehensive insurance policy for protecting the integrity of elections does not exist.
En este artículo se propone realizar un análisis longitudinal de los resultados de elecciones presidenciales peruanas desde 2001, con el propósito de verificar la existencia de patrones supuestamente anómalos que, desde diversos sectores, se utilizaron como evidencia para señalar una manipulación sistemática de votos (fraude) durante las elecciones generales del 2021.
The recent postponement of the local polls in Karachi, Pakistan due to the extreme weather (Khan 2022) is an example of how natural hazards can affect an electoral process. To date, the floods have submerged a third of the country, destroying critical infrastructure and killed more than 1,000 people.
Two years out from the next Indonesian election, preparations are well underway for political parties in one of the world’s most populous democracies. As a presidential representative democracy for more than 20 years, the country has upwards of 80 political parties. Despite this vibrant political environment, Indonesia’s democracy has shown signs of democratic backslides, notably in the areas of corruption and parliamentary effectiveness.
Like other natural disasters, wildfires can have sudden calamitous impacts on communities, destroying buildings, damaging infrastructure and displacing populations. In this chapter we examine the Californian wildfires occurring from September 2015 to November 2018 to assess their effect on two electoral cycles in the state (2016 and 2018), and to study how electoral practitioners cope with these challenges in a developed democratic setting.
The 2019 elections in Mozambique were preceded by two cyclones that directly and significantly affected the electoral process in the central and northern regions. In addition to the cyclones, terrorist attacks which began in 2017 had a negative impact on voter registration and voting processes.
This case study provides several findings and lessons learned.
The challenges faced by electoral administrators in holding Haiti’s 2010 elections were extreme. Even before the country was confronted with the effects of the compound disasters addressed in this case study, it was dealing
with long-term societal and institutional problems that severely impeded electoral administration.
“Authoritarianism is on the rise, but resilience and democratic pushbacks are alive as well”. This headline properly captures the democratic trends in the Asia and Pacific region, characterised by extraordinary diversity in terms of country size, traditions, development but also of regime types and performances. These range from some of the most enduring autocratic regimes to some of the best performing democracies in the world.
This Brief examines the impact of Covid-19 on systems of government, emergency response and opposition members in legislatures and their ability to maintain democratic principles. Drawing on insights from five countries as case studies, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Republic of Korea and Singapore, this Brief finds that emergency responses that restrict the capacity of the legislature erode the ability of opposition members to contribute.
When political leaders return from their unusually hot summer holidays, they will soon face the spectre of an exceptionally cold winter.
With gas and oil prices skyrocketing due to the war in Ukraine, energy bills will leave millions of citizens struggling to stay warm and make ends meet.
Idirashe Dongo is a councillor for ward 30 in Zibagwe Rural District Council. “I am in my first term of office, and being new in this local governance business, I have learnt a lot from the exposure I have received thus far”.
She attributes her success to Gender Links, who have played a pivotal role in supporting and equipping her with essential skills to fully participate in local governance processes.
Resta Dzinyangoma, the council Vice Chairperson of Murehwa Rural District Council, has been a councillor since 2004. “I was very young when I got into the council, and it was not easy since it was a male dominated domain. When I got elected into the council, I was already doing gender work in my community, which I have continued doing to date.”
Women politicians in Zimbabwe have demonstrated an increased ability to do a gendered analysis and evaluation of policies that govern the activities of the political arena.
This was evidenced by the efforts made by female politicians through Dialogue Sessions with Parliament and electoral management bodies to ensure that the 30 per cent quota extended to women at the local authority level is fully operational before the 2023 general elections.
In South Sudan, Africa's youngest nation, women's political participation remains low when there are calls to have more women in positions of power globally. The Republic of South Sudan gained its independence on the 9th of July 2011 but slid into political violence within barely two years of its existence.
Senegal is among the countries with a high women's political participation in Africa and the world. This has been necessitated by The 2010 Gender Parity, which resulted in Senegal rising to the seventh position in the world regarding women's representation in Parliament, leading the way for equality, specifically in West Africa.
Malawi has pledged to move in the right direction to achieve gender equality in the political spaces. The second quarter of 2022 saw the President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera, renewing his commitment to working towards 50/50 representation in Parliament.
A general observation of the Zimbabwe, Eswatini and Botswana media landscape shows an improved positive coverage of women’s political participation in print and electronic media. An in-depth analysis of the stories published in 2020 in the four countries shows reassuring efforts by the media to prioritise gender-neutral coverage meant to generate an environment of equality in the political field.
Women politicians and other key stakeholders came together and called for the constitutional review and the inclusion of electoral provisions that promote women’s political participation.
The Economic Community of West African States Female Parliamentarians Association (ECOFEPA) launched the first edition of the Women and Girls Leadership Symposium under the theme “Unleashing the Potentials of Women and Girls in Politics and Entrepreneurship” last month at the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja.