CNN —Billed as “the year of democracy,” 2024 may ultimately be remembered as the year voters sent incumbents packing.
What might 2025 bring for incumbents and what factors are at play?
It’s the inflation, stupidWhy was 2024 so difficult for incumbents?
Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty ImagesOn the horizonA brief survey of upcoming elections suggests 2025 may be equally hard for incumbents in democracies.
And so, 2025 may look like a slimmed-down version of 2024, with fewer elections but incumbents continuing to struggle.
Persons:
Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s, Donald Trump’s, Ben Ansell, “ What’s, they’ve, That’s, ” Ansell, ”, Ansell, Isabella Weber, Claudia Sheinbaum, Sheinbaum, Manuel Velasquez, Weber, it’s, “, ” Roberto Foa, Rishi Sunak, Henry Nicholls, Emmanuel Macron, Brigitte, Hannah McKay, Vicente Valentim, ” Valentim, Narendra Modi, Money Sharma, Cyril Ramaphosa, Boksburg, Anders Pettersson, Olaf Scholz, Justin Trudeau’s, Trudeau, Pierre Poilievre, Labor Party’s Anthony Albanese, Liberals ’ Peter Dutton, Scholz, Markus Schreiber, Kamara Morozuk, Moldova’s Maia Sandu, Calin Georgescu, Daniel Noboa, Luisa Gonzalez, Xiomara Castro, Honduras ’, –, Adam Przeworski, Alexander Lukashenko
Organizations:
CNN, Financial, ”, Incumbents, University of Oxford, Post, Voters, New York Times, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Centre, Democracy, University of Cambridge, Getty Images, European University Institute, Netflix, Getty, African National Congress, Labor, Liberals, Bloomberg, Kremlin
Locations:
United States, India, Ukraine, Europe, Mexico, Morena, America, Mexico City, AFP, France, Florence, New Delhi, South, February’s, Australia, Berlin, Ottawa, Moscow, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ecuador, Honduras, Belarus