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Mexican protesters see electoral overhaul as a threat to democracy

MEXICO CITY — Juan Manuel Martinez remembers the days when he would vote in Mexico’s elections with no confidence that they were being run fairly.

Los Angeles Times

Tens of thousands protest Mexico electoral reforms

Tens of thousands of people filled Mexico City's vast main plaza to protest electoral law reforms that they say threaten democracy

The Independent UK

Mexicans turn out in droves to protest electoral overhaul, see democracy at risk

Huge crowds gathered in Mexico on Sunday to condemn government moves to shrink the electoral authority as a threat to democracy, in what appeared to be the largest protest so far against President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's administration.

Reuters

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Outdated and out of time: Biden’s crusade for global democracy is doomed to fail

The US president won rave reviews in Kyiv and Warsaw. But his old, cold war mindset is out of step with a changing world

The Guardian - UK

Democracy means judicial autonomy, German envoy says on Israel overhaul

Germany believes an independent justice system is a tenet of democracy and is closely watching the Israeli dispute over a government plan for judicial change, its envoy said, as protesters flooded the streets for an eighth straight week on Saturday.

Reuters

Factbox-Nigeria election 2023: how it all works and when to expect results

Nigerians were voting in presidential and parliamentary elections on Saturday that are seen as the most wide open since the country switched from military rule to democracy in 1999.

Reuters

Jonathan Bernstein: Ex-felons deserve the right to vote

Minnesota this month became the latest state to restore voting rights to ex-felons once they are released from prison. Democrats around the U.S. have been pushing to reduce or eliminate restrictions on voting, in particular fighting to extend voting rights to people on parole or probation. Many Republicans have been…

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The Greater Manchester town where only four people sleep rough

Mo and Will have come through dark times

Manchester Evening News

Philippines 1986 revolt marked with dictator's son as leader

Pro-democracy protesters have marked the anniversary of the 1986 “people power” revolt in the Philippines with the son of the dictator, who was ousted in that uprising, now the president in a stunning comeback

The Independent UK

A Conflict Between Liberal Democracy and Authoritarian Nationalism: Implications of the Ideological Stakes in the Russia-Ukraine War

The war is often described as a conflict between authoritarianism and liberal democracy. That reality has some underappreciated implications.

Reason

I assisted Carter’s work encouraging democracy – and saw how his experience, persistence and engineer’s mindset helped build a freer Latin America over decades

When former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter founded the nonprofit Carter Center in 1982, one of their goals was to help Latin American countries – many of which were emerging from decades of military dictatorship – transition to democracies.

The Conversation

Jill Biden to Namibian youth: Protect your democracy

U.S. first lady Jill Biden has told the young people of Namibia that the democracy their parents and grandparents fought for is now theirs to defend and protect

The Independent UK

Nigeria election 2023: Five reasons to care about the vote

Millions of Nigerians are set to elect their next president. Here’s what’s at stake.

Al Jazeera

Israel's rightward shift is straining its ties with US Jews

An array of U.S. Jewish leaders are sounding alarms about what they see as a threat to Israel’s democracy posed by its new government

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Salon

Biden shows us courage: Will it matter?

A U.S. president traveled to a war zone his own forces didn't control. Maybe that wasn't wise, but it was dramatic

The Conversation

Election observers are important for democracy – but few voters know what they do

Election observers keep watch over polls throughout the world. Their job is to support efforts to improve electoral quality and to provide transparency. In African countries, both local citizen and international observers have been deployed regularly since the 1990s.

Reuters

Factbox-Nigeria election 2023: how it all works

Nigerians are set to vote in presidential and parliamentary elections on Saturday that are seen as the most wide open since Africa's most populous nation switched from military rule to democracy in 1999.

France 24

Mexico's Senate approves controversial electoral reform bill

Mexico’s Senate on Wednesday approved a reform of the country’s electoral institute, a move that opponents say will undercut democracy but which the president contends will save money and reduce political privileges.

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Mexico's Senate approves controversial electoral reform

Mexico’s Senate has approved a reform of the country’s electoral institute, a move that opponents say will undercut democracy but which the president contends will save money and reduce political privileges

Reuters

Mexico passes electoral overhaul that critics warn weakens democracy

Mexican lawmakers on Wednesday approved a controversial overhaul of the body overseeing the country's elections, a move critics warn will weaken democracy ahead of a presidential vote next year.

France 24

Nigeria's uncertain election: Can third party candidate force presidential run-off?

Will Nigeria's two-party system tremble? Africa's most populous nation has known its share of bruising campaigns, but never since the 1999 return to democracy has there been a run-off in the presidential election. Now, in a nation where the average age is 18, could voters turn away from big tent…

The Conversation

Bola Tinubu: Nigeria's kingmaker who wants to be king

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Nigeria, holds two traditional titles: Asiwaju of Lagos and Jagaban of the Borgu kingdom in Niger State, north-central Nigeria. The titles have similar meanings: leader and leader of warriors.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Nuclear hints and nasty threats aside, Putin’s fate still depends on China

It was a tale of two cities and two speeches — Joe Biden in Warsaw, Vladimir Putin in Moscow. To borrow Dickens’ famous opening line, the worst of times was represented by the Russian leader’s wall-to- wall paranoia. The best, perhaps, was the American’s exhortations to back democracy and the…

Salon

Republicans hit Biden to hurt Ukraine

Far-right Republicans won't come right out in support of Putin, yet they agree with his anti-democratic agenda

Salon

Why Republicans are so easily triggered

Curiously, it is the same reason why they are best equipped for the meme wars

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