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According to a study, democracies are now clearly in the minority in developing and emerging countries: there are still 63 democracies with a total population of around three billion people, compared to 74 autocracies with around four billion people, according to an international analysis of the Bertelsmann Foundation.
“Democracy continues to lose ground around the world,” says the “Transformation Index 2024,” surveyed for the tenth time in two decades in 137 countries. On Monday, the foundation wanted to talk to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (65) and various experts in Berlin about the difficult state of the democracies.
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The evaluated country reports and data show that political participation rights in particular – free elections, freedom of assembly and association or freedom of expression and freedom of the press – are being restricted in more and more countries. “The separation of powers is also increasingly undermined and the space for civil society participation is shrinking.”
In autocratic countries, authoritarian leadership allows political participation only to a very limited extent or not at all. Of the 74 autocracies, 49 states are classified as ‘hardliner autocracies’, including Russia, which is waging a war of aggression against Ukraine. There, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin (71) declared himself the winner again on Sunday after a presidential election that was criticized as a farce: opposition candidates were not admitted, observers spoke of repression and fraud. The foundation’s full international investigation was expected to be published on Tuesday. (SDA)
Source: Blick
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