Democracies are dying in most countries of the world: IDEA

70% of the world's population lives in non-democratic countries

The state of democratic values ​​in countries like USA, India, Brazil is also worrisome: report of organizations working for democracy

New Delhi: The number of countries around the world where democracy is weakening day by day is increasing. Such countries include India. A report released by the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) states that "the number of countries where democratic values ​​are at stake has never been higher."

Explaining the reasons for weakening democratic values, the organization said that "the politics of the country's leaders, the politics of seducing the people, the excuse of the Covid-19 epidemic to silence critics, the tendency to adopt undemocratic practices of other countries and spread misinformation to divide society." Democracies around the world are at stake.

This report is based on data and statistics collected by IDEA since 1975. Democracies are "on the brink of death" in many more countries than ever before, the report said. There have never been so many countries where democracy and democratic values ​​have collapsed.

Regarding India, the report said, "Apart from the independence of the judiciary, the report also focuses on human rights and freedom of the media. The biggest change in 2021 has been seen in Afghanistan. There, as Western forces were leaving, the Taliban took control of large parts of the country.

1st February in Myanmar. The IDEA report states that "the coup d'tat in Mali has led to frequent coups d'tat, and the coup in Tunisia has led to the dissolution of parliament and the imposition of 'emergency-power'."

Surprisingly, the report also raises concerns about democracy in "established democracies" such as Brazil, India and the United States. In Brazil and the United States, it is the presidents who raise questions about the country's election results, while in India, critics of government policies are persecuted.

The report further states that the 'epidemic' has strengthened the 'dictatorship'. So democracy has suffered the most in countries like Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Serbia due to dictatorship. Turkey's democracy has suffered the most from 2010 to 2020.

Shockingly, the report states: "As many as 70 per cent of the world's population lives in countries where there is no 'democracy', or the 'drama' of democracy. So in some places democracy has been uprooted. See what is happening in Afghanistan? Has the situation of women improved there at all? While in other countries the attitude of the rulers and governments in the name of Kovid-epidemic has become more monopolistic.

"There is no evidence that authoritarian governments have done a better job of dealing with the epidemic than true democratic governments," the report said. In fact, the epidemic has given Belarus, Cuba, Myanmar, Nicaragua and Venezuela a powerful pretext for dictatorships to justify repression and silence protests. "