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Some candidates are already questioning the integrity of the vote and undermining the credibility of the results

In the days before the midterm elections, it’s easy to see our political divisions.

Fears over democratic decline have intensified in Kiribati after the appointment of the country's attorney-general to the position of acting chief justice.

Many hours after being defeated, Jair Bolsonaro hadn’t conceded defeat or challenged the results. Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva won Sunday’s runoff with 50.9% to Bolsonaro’s 49.1% — the closest election since Brazil’s return to democracy in 1985.

Petition signed by 300,000 people demands Home Office drops ‘attempt to overthrow democracy’

Experts say deniers may not be able to overturn elections but they weaken public confidence in democratic institutions.

A merger would have ‘impoverished our democracy’, US judge finds

THE UK Government is undermining democracy and the law by its “unreasonable and immoral” ignoring of the SNP ’s mandate for an independence…

It was early spring 1946. British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, seeing the untenable status quo, sent a simple message to the British colonial officer in India: “In any case, get Britain out.” The following year, King George VI signed legislation passed by Parliament, finally ending Britain’s violent colonial rule on…