Stockholm: The United States has joined the annual list of “backsliding” democracy for the first time, said the International Think-Tank said on Monday, refers to the “visible setback” he said began in 2019.
Global, more than one people living in democracy Rear, the proportion that rose to more than two in three with the addition of an authoritarian or “hybrid” regime, according to the International Institute for Democracy Assistance and Stockholm-based selection.
“This year we encoded the United States as a bed back for the first time, but our data showed that the backsliding episode began at least in 2019,” he said in his report entitled “Global State of Democracy 2021”.
“The United States is high-performance democracy, and even increases its performance in an impartial administrative indicator (corruption and predictable enforcement) in 2020.
However, the decline in civil liberties and government examinations showed that there was a serious problem with the fundamentals of democracy,” Alexander Hudson, a writer’s writer, told AFP.
“The historic turning point came at 2020-21 when former President Donald Trump questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election results in the United States,” the report said.
In addition, Hudson refers to “the decline in the quality of freedom of association and assembly during the summer protest in 2020” after the murder of the police George Floyd.
International ideas basing their assessments in 50 years of democratic indicators around 160 countries, assigned them to three categories: democracy (including those “backwards”), the “hybrid” government and authoritarian regime.
“Damage to democracy seen in the United States, as seen in the increasing tendency to oppose credible election results, efforts to reduce participation (in elections), and polarization that escape …
is one of the most concerned developments,” ideas said International Secretary General of Kevin Casas-Zamora.
He warned about the knock-on effect, noting: “The contestation of violence from the 2020 election without evidence of fraud has been replicated, in a different way, in diverse places such as Myanmar, Peru and Israel.” The number of stomach democracy has doubled in the past decade, now accounting for a quarter of the world population.
In addition to “established democracy” such as the US, the list includes the state of the Hungarian EU member, Poland and Slovenia.
Two countries on the list last year – Ukraine and North Macedonia – deleted this year after their situation improved.
The other two, Mali and Serbia, left the list because they were no longer considered a democracy.
While Myanmar moved from democracy to the authoritarian regime, Afghanistan and Mali entered this category of the previous hybrid government label.
For the fifth consecutive year, in 2020, the countries turned against the authoritarianism of the number of those who enjoyed democratization.
International ideas expect this trend to continue up to 2021.
For 2021, according to group assessment, the world calculates 98 democracies – the lowest number in several years – as well as 20 “hybrids” governments including Russia, Morocco and Turkey and 47 authoritarian regimes including China, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Iran.
Adding a depreciation of democracy to hybrid and authoritarian countries, “We talked about 70 percent of the population in the world,” Casas-Zamora told AFP.
“That tells you that something is fundamentally seriously occurs with the quality of democracy,” he added.
The report said the trend towards democratic erosion has “become more acute and worrying” since the start of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
“Some countries, especially Hungary, India, the Philippines, and the United States, have steps (applied) which amount to violations of democracy – that is, the steps are disproportionate, illegal, unlimited or not connected with emergency properties,” reports That said.
“This pandemic course accelerates and enlarges some negative trends, especially in places where democracy and the law supremacy is sick before the pandemic,” Casas-Zamora said.
The US joins the ‘Backsliding’ ‘democratic list
