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The ‘super year’ of elections has been super bad for incumbents

as voters punish them in droves

By DAVID RISING, JILL malaise since the COVID-19
LAWLESS and NICHOLAS pandemic as people and
RICCARDI businesses struggle to get
Associated Press back on their feet while
BANGKOK (AP) — Whether facing stubbornly high
on the left or the right, prices, cash-strapped
regardless of how long governments and a surge
they’ve been in power, in migration.
sitting governments “There’s an overall sense
around the world have of frustration with political
been drubbed this year by elites, viewing them as out
disgruntled voters in what of touch, that cuts across
has been called the “super ideological lines,” said
year” for elections. Richard Wike, director of
Donald Trump’s victory global attitudes research at
in the U.S. presidential the Pew Research Center.
election was just the latest He noted that a Pew poll
in a long line of losses for of 24 countries found that
incumbent parties in 2024, the appeal of democracy
with people in some 70 itself was slipping as
countries accounting for voters reported increasing
about half the world’s economic distress and
population going to the a sense that no political
polls. faction truly represents
Issues driving voter them.
discontent have varied “Lots of factors are driving Britain’s outgoing Conservative Party Prime Minister Rishi Sunak looks down as he makes a short
widely, though there has this,” Wike said, “but speech outside 10 Downing Street before going to see King Charles III to tender his resignation in
been almost universal certainly feelings about the London, Friday, July 5, 2024.
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