There is widespread relief about the re-election of Emmanuel Macron as president of France. As with the 2020 US presidential election, this was another high-stake election that was, in fact, a referendum on democracy.
And, yes, the winner of the Slovenian elections last Sunday had also called the poll a referendum about democracy.
As welcome as it is when democratic ...
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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation.