Sentences with phrase «if electoral violence»
Voters are more likely to support democracy and accept the outcome of democratic elections — which is important if electoral violence is to be avoided — if they trust that people like them will not be excluded from political and economic opportunities just because their candidate lost.
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«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 Kinshasa.
If incumbents in weak democracies foresee a greater risk of losing office, they sometimes employ electoral fraud and pre-electoral violence to maintain power,» he explains.