For the first time, the United States is considered a “democracy in retreat.”

The country was a source of inspiration. He is now in a state of panic.

For the first time, the United States, the symbol of democracy, entered the list of countries in the world on Monday where “democracy is declining”, according to the International Organization for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA).

Stockholm, a Sweden-based intergovernmental organization that has been examining democratic developments around the world for more than 25 years, describes the decline as “worrying” and attributes it to the years in power. Donald Trump, But he questioned the legitimacy of the results of the 2020 presidential election that brought Democrat Joe Bidney to power, with intent and without any basis.

With this addition, more than a quarter of the world’s population now lives in a country with a democratic backwardness, referring to the international idea that is attacking big countries like India and Brazil and now placing the United States. Equality with Hungary, Poland and Slovenia in matters of concern to the detriment of democracy.

“Significantly, the United States, the bastion of global democracy, has fallen victim to dictatorial tendencies and has descended a considerable number of steps on the democratic ladder.” Can we read in the report, The former president, from the seat of the U.S. executive, speaks of a “historic turning point” when “fundamental confidence in the electoral process was undermined.” The strategy culminated on Jan. 6 with a failed coup attempt by populist supporters against Capitol to block a ballot paper confirming Joe Biden’s victory.

“The visible deterioration of democracy in the United States, the tendency to challenge credible election results, the attempts to suppress the vote and the polarization of the runway are demonstrations of one of the most worrying developments in democracy in the United States. ‘ Zamora said briefly.

According to the International Idea, the democratic retreat may be a sign of moving towards a hybrid regime and then becoming a dictatorship.

Go towards dictatorship

For the fifth year in a row, the number of countries around the world marching towards authoritarianism is three times higher than at the stage of democratization. Worldwide, two-thirds of the population live under dictatorial, anti-democratic rule. The worst thing is that the number of countries where democracy is declining has doubled in almost a decade.

“The global democratic government of 2021 shows that more and more of the established democracies are suffering from ‘democratic erosion’ – the decline of democratic standards,” the report concludes. The number of countries experiencing a “democratic recession” – a very serious and deliberate erosion of democracy – has never been higher than in the last decade. “

Significantly, although the United States enters the list of declining democracies, Ukraine and northern Macedonia are due to improved conditions there, according to the authors of the report. Serbia, Mali, Burma and Afghanistan are changing the status quo to enter the list of dictatorial regimes.

Concerns about the health of American democracy are expressed by the International Idea because many U.S. states with strong Republican concentrations have passed laws aimed at reducing ballot access for months, but making it easier to remove the ballot box. ‘Independence is the election of increasingly eroding electoral systems. That Legal changes Repeated claims that “electoral theft” took place in 2020 are justified, and these claims clearly contradict the facts.

Last July, a group of American historians also classified Donald Trump One of the worst presidents in the country’s historyThis, since 1789. Its attempted coup, like its administration against the epidemic, gained this status with the democratic collapse in a country that had secured an international idea.

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