Moments and Movements within the 2024 Elections
64 countries and 49% of people in the world are going to vote this year. The oldest, most powerful and the biggest democracy is among these 64 countries. This year was presented as not an election year, but as the year of elections. This expectation was alongside the unfolding of events in Gaza and Palestine. At the end of this year will we continue to associate democracy with regular elections and what it ensures or look more at the state of relations within and among states and societies? It is May, and at the middle of Indian elections( with 283 seats out of 543 already voted) instead of stabilized expectations worries, fears and uncertainty have taken center-stage. Most people including the ruling party in India are unsure, as of today, what the outcome of elections would be? The dominant and successful electoral campaign of MODI vs who( you cannot name your leader, you have no leader!) is muted. In the last two elections a single party won a mandate on its own, a...