Opinion by Keith B. Richburg: There’s been so much bleak news about the global rollback of democracy in recent years that it makes sense to pause and take note of some positive — and perhaps overlooked — signs.
this year that he was angling to change the country’s constitution and try to remain in office for a third five-year term, as some of his supporters had suggested. Potential successors are angling already for elections scheduled for 2024.and his “New Order” regime. Nearly a quarter-century later, Indonesia — the world’s most-populous Muslim-majority country — is Southeast Asia’s most entrenched democracy.
In the Philippines, where I lived in the 1980s, many were dismayed this summer by the prospect of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son and namesake of the late dictator, being elected president. He campaigned on vague promises and a , mostly on Facebook and TikTok, that largely succeeded in whitewashing his family’s corrupt history.
But Marcos won in a landslide, and the losing candidate, Leni Robredo, the former vice president, wastelling her supporters, “We need to accept the majority’s decision.” Her concession was a model that should be emulated elsewhere, including in the United States. The rise of authoritarianism around the globe needs to be confronted. But let’s pause a moment to acknowledge some democratic successes. Institutions do work. Guardrails can hold. And predictions of democracy’s demise may be, at best, premature.
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