The question is not who will win, but what will happen when the next legislature is installed — at a time when international engagement has retreated to the background."

These elections are unfolding in the context of a late-Museveni regime, where the central political question has shifted from electoral competition to succession management...

"Uganda’s elections thus look deceptively familiar. There is violence, repression, patronage, and a foregone electoral outcome. Yet to focus solely on these continuities is to miss what is distinctive about this moment. ..

Presenter: Licia Cianetti is Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham and Founding Deputy Director of CEDAR.

Guest: Janna Sauerteig is Mobilization and Advocacy Manager at SOS Humanity. Their latest report “Borders of (In)humanity”, published this May, demonstrates the connection between the EU’s migration externalisation policies and human rights violations in the Central Mediterranean.

Here is new post by Paula Cristina Roque. Very accurate reporting.

Another government rejected by the people. An unruly party refusing to go. Mass Protest resulted in a worst post election massacre by state police.

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

New from myself and the brilliant Hangwei Li in the Daily Nation.

Thanks, as ever, to the fabulous Mike Owour for his support.

... indeed a broader story about the challenges facing liberal democracy in Europe today.

... much food for thought. We have seen two important elections in the country in the past couple of years with contrasting outcomes. Those two elections can be placed within a wider and deeper story of the fate of democracy in Poland and ...

Why are illiberal governments able to retain support? How are they defeated at election time? And how do (and should) governments driven by a desire to undo illiberalism proceed? For all interested in elections, democracy, accountability and representation Poland provides ...

Written again with the brilliant Jennifer Cyr and Matias Bianchi

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If you are interested in the original, you should be able to get it here:

journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the...

(If not, send me a message and I will get a version to you).