Welcome to the Year of Elections. About four billion people — roughly half the world's population — will go to the polls in 2024, from to , America to , to the European Parliament and many places in between.We're almost certain to have a general election in dear old Blighty, too. It would be comforting to regard the coming year as a great Festival of Democracy: comforting, but wrong.Even though there will be votes in over 60 countries, 2024 is more likely to be a year of crisis for democracy, which is in greater peril than at any time since the Cold War, perhaps even since the 1930s. Far from this being the Year of Democracy, there is a graver danger it will turn out to be the Year of the Despots.
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