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The storming of Brazil’s Presidential Palace, Congress and Supreme Court by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday is an unacceptable, illegitimate and dangerous assault on democracy and the outcome of free and fair elections.

International IDEA, with the support from the European Commission, has been contributing to increasing effective evidence-based and coordinated support for democracy across the world through the Supporting Team Europe Democracy (STED) project. Within this project, the Summit for Democracy (S4D) emerged as a unique opportunity to place democracy at the center of the global agenda.

It was not until 1996 that Mexico freed itself from the curse of government-manipulated electoral processes that cast doubt on the democratic legitimacy of even the most widely supported of its successive post-revolutionary governments.

Former Reuters environment correspondent and author of The Great Melt Alister Doyle talks about the role of the United Nations, especially the COP conferences, in dealing with the threat of climate change.

International IDEA, in collaboration with the European Commission (EC) and the Youth Political and Civic Engagement Cohort of the Summit for Democracy (S4D), held on 15 November 2022, an online peer-to-peer dialogue, Promoting the role of youth in political and democratic spaces. The event explored commitments on youth presented by governments at the S4D, drawing lessons learnt and identifying opportunities for further engagement for the Year of Action.

On 30 November 2022, International IDEA launched two new knowledge products under the Global State of Democracy Initiative:

Half of democratic governments around the world are in decline while authoritarian regimes are deepening their repression.

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A lo largo de su trayectoria política en búsqueda del poder que finalmente obtuvo en las elecciones presidenciales de 2018, el actual mandatario de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, construyó una base narrativa para convencer a su electorado sobre la base de que su triunfo había sido obtenido —no gracias, sino— a pesar de la actuación mostrada por las autoridades encargadas de organizar y vigilar al  proceso comicial en su conjunto.

La política latinoamericana abrió su periodo electoral 2022 en Costa Rica y lo cerró en Brasil, teniendo al medio la presidencial colombiana y el

International IDEA shared with electoral authorities, civil society, and political actors the main elements of the current state of political financing in Paraguay, as revealed by a qualitative study carried out this year.

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Transforming Constitution-building

International IDEA attended the second round of the Brazilian presidential election 2022 with a delegation led by former Presidents of Bolivia Carlos Mesa, and Costa Rica Carlos Alvarado, and composed of former Senator of Uruguay Mónica Xavier, former Senator of Paraguay Diego Abente, former Senator of Chile Sergio Bitar, as well as the Director of International IDEA for Latin America and the Caribbean Daniel Zovatto, Head of Programme in Paraguay Salvador Romero Ballivián and Mauricio Barbos

International IDEA will assist in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, on Sunday 30 October 2022.

The Mozambique Office of International IDEA facilitated on 14 and 15 October 2022 in the district of Matutuíne, Province of Maputo a two-day training and reflection session for the Parliamentary Committee on Public Service and Local Government on the new decentralisation architecture in Mozambique.

Paraguay has been making continuous efforts to consolidate its democratic institutions since the instauration of the regime in 1989. An ample political consensus allowed for the drafting and adoption of a democratic Constitution in 1992, which ushered in a period of legal reforms to complete the Republic’s new regulatory framework. One such key element is the Electoral Code of 1996.

The women’s training programme, led by the national electoral management body in cooperation with International IDEA, earned an Honorable Mention in the Gender Equality category in the first edition of the Global Network on Electoral Justice Awards for meeting the main criterion of contributing to a concrete and measurable increase in gender parity in public life.

The challenges faced by electoral administrators in holding Haiti’s 2010 elections were extreme. Even before the country was confronted with the effects of the compound disasters addressed in this case study, it was dealing
with long-term societal and institutional problems that severely impeded electoral administration.

The Electoral Tribunal of Panama (ET) launched on 23 March 2022, the General Elections Plan (PLAGEL), by its acronym in Spanish, where International IDEA will provide international technical assistance.

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International IDEA views the Summit for Democracy as a strategic opportunity to place democracy at the front and center of the global agenda. The war in Ukraine underscores, even more, the need for democracies to stand united in the face of authoritarian threats. International IDEA has therefore developed a strategic engagement programme around the Summits for Democracy in 2021 and 2023 and the Year of Action 2022.

In a region that has seen the greatest progress in political gender equality in the last two decades, Paraguay stands out, but for the wrong reasons: it has the third-lowest percentage of women in parliament in the Americas, with 17.5%, roughly half the regional average of 33.9%. When considering other elective positions, the divide widens.