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El domingo 4 de febrero de 2024 se realizaron en Costa Rica los sextos comicios para elegir autoridades municipales por los próximos 4 años en los 84 municipios y 492 distritos del país, para un total de 6,212 autoridades locales que resultaron electas.
El domingo 4 de febrero de 2024 se realizaron en Costa Rica los sextos comicios para elegir autoridades municipales por los próximos 4 años en los 84 municipios y 492 distritos del país, para un total de 6,212 autoridades locales que resultaron electas.
Costa Rica celebró las Elecciones Municipales el pasado 4 de febrero, contando con la participación de la Directora Regional para América Latina y el Caribe de IDEA, Marcela Ríos Tobar.
Costa Rica held the Municipal Elections on February 4, with the participation of the Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of IDEA, Marcela Ríos Tobar.
The Sitio Mata Interparty Ethical Pact for the 2024 municipal elections, prepared by 59 young people, was signed by 42 national and local political parties in Costa Rica in a ceremony held on November 18.
Despite widespread claims that parliamentary systems with an indirectly elected president produce better outcomes for democratic governance, constitutional reform to move away from a directly elected president to an indirectly elected president is extremely rare.
En este informe se presenta un análisis de la participación política de diversos grupos poblacionales identificados como grupos discriminados en América Latina: las mujeres, las personas indígenas, las personas
New Zealand maintains a robust, long-established democratic system in the South Pacific. It enjoys a reputation for integrity and is generally ranked among the world’s top countries in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. The outbreak of Covid-19 and the consequent first postponement of an election since World War II failed to mar that status.
The European Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) covers six countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. The Covid-19 pandemic put a strain on fledgling democracies in the EaP region, aggravating pre-existing concerns, such as the weak rule of law, insufficient accountability of executive branches vis-à-vis legislatures and fragile media freedoms (see International IDEA 2022).
International IDEA and the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD) organized a conference in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 2005 on constitutional and political reform in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. It was dedicated to the exchange of information about the reform process in the three South Caucasus countries and the prospects for their European integration.
This study from 2002 was one of the first to use International IDEA’s State of Democracy Assessment Framework.
The Framework is different from other methodologies because its assessments are led and owned by local actors, and move away from the practice of ranking democratic performance and making external judgements.