www.linkedin.com/pulse/analysis-official-development-assistance-per-regime-type-matthys It is hard enough to win an election as the Opposition. Why do donors make it even harder by funding autocratic governments whose first spending priority is crushing their…

Opposition leaders throughout the Commonwealth have particular reason to add to fond remembrance of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. She kept active the honorific but important prerogative of the Crown to…

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www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/kenya-opposition-leader-files-court-challenge-election-result-raila-odinga Kenya has gone down this path before. Nobody enjoys it. But, until the management of national elections reaches a higher level of confidence, court actions will, and should, continue.…

www.opensocietyfoundations.org/who-we-are/our-history A new retrospective is available of the activities of George Soros’s OSF. There is not space here for reflection and analysis. Such an examination would be welcome by supporters…

democracyreporting.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/images/62ff602348aa2.pdf Over the years DRI has released important assessments of media coverage of key issues and driven successful awareness campaigns. Yet, taken as a whole DRI appears unfocused flitting from…

asia.fes.de/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/fes_asia_geopolitcs_regional_programme_highlights_211220.pdf Interesting read

www.wfd.org/elections A great report on a good initiative. What’s missing is the will to support actions against the validation of “fake” elections. That may not be possible for official donor…

www.theafricareport.com/237697/kenya-2022-lies-damn-lies-and-statistics/ Professor Nic Cheeseman publishes interesting and useful information and analysis of special importance to opposition parties in Africa. The idea of legal challenges to African elections is not new,…

www.idea.int/blog/anti-immigrant-rhetoric-grows-sweden-democracy-feeling-strain Alistair Scrutton a high-ranking international IDEA official published a “personal” blog on the IDEA website that called the policies of the Swedish Democrats “far right” and “anti-immigrant” and cited…