Despite being nominally given the opportunity to choose, the way the Maduro government has set up the electoral process, committed fraud, repressed the opposition and systematically undermined the process of
free and fair elections over the past years, all but guarantees authoritarian durability.
Not exact matches
«
Over the years, Fran has had to endure this
and many other efforts to block Democrats from their right to
free and fair elections.
He lamented that the legacy of
free,
fair and credible
elections bequeathed on Nigeria by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government of Dr Goodluck Jonathan was already being destroyed by the President Muhammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) government owing to the APC's desperation to take
over all States in the country by crude means.
«If things remain as they are - without dialogue between the electoral commission
and political parties
over the electoral process, as well as between the commission
and civil society
and the international community -
and elections go on as planned, the result could be violence,» Jerome Bonso, chairman of the National League for Free and Fair Elections, told IRIN in
elections go on as planned, the result could be violence,» Jerome Bonso, chairman of the National League for
Free and Fair Elections, told IRIN in
Elections, told IRIN in Kinshasa.
Following viral reports
and images of some underage persons thumb - printing ballot papers in Kano council
election, DAILY POST had reported that Nigerians took to social media to express worries
over the competence of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct
free and fair elections in 2019.