Around half of the world’s population is called to vote this year. The votes are also an indicator of the continued existence of liberal democracies.
On Friday will be in Iran a new parliament was elected. However, in Iran, which is weakened domestically, Ayatollah Khamenei’s ultra-conservative Guardian Council alone decides who is allowed to run. Experts predict one of the lowest voter turnouts in the history of the Islamic Republic. Numerous moderate candidates had previously been rejected.
The one raised by Oxford University Free and Fair Elections Index evaluates countries based on the degree to which elections are free from vote buying, irregularities, fraud, intimidation and violence. The scale ranges from 0 (not free and not fair) to 1 (free and fair). The size of the circles reflects the size of a country’s population.
Source: Stern
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