You should definitely cover the European election. Sure, the parliament doesn't have the powers of a regular parliament. But it will probably tilt more right-wing, and populist. Parliament still need to approve the commission, and legislation on the EU level.
Wait, EU representatives are elected? Huh I thought they were appointed by the leader of the country, like their prime ministers or presidents appointed the EU reps.
The South African Election definitely needs its own video. It's such an important time in our history. Many political parties are calling it '2024 is our 1994'
I have heard this too, the problem is that there is no energy in this election. The ANC and DA are treating this as if its another “normal” election while the EFF have weak policies while winning over young unemployed voters and jumping on scandals calling themselves the hero’s.
How can one party drive the country to this level and still have this kind of popularity is beyond my comprehension... They must be really pumping their PR department.
@@Daimlerxy_ actually no, the DA is very clear on how critically important this election is - SA's infrastucture has collapsed under the ANC & its economy, once a developed nation, is now even lagging by African standards. even if black Africans don't want to hear it (& i sympathize) the multi-party charter is the only thing that will save SA
@@NimbleBard48 It's mainly due to low levels of education and people still seeing the ANC as the hero's of apartheid. A lot of people also don't want to vote for the opposition DA (Democratic Alliance) because people view it as a "White party".
Russia needs Islam, Quran and Islamic laws in their country so that their country become more civilised and prosperous. I believe this can happen in the future because Russia is an ally of Muslim countries, and Islam is the fastest growing religion. Many people in Europe converting to Islam because Islam is the one and only true religion.
@@roxader4299no way, the mockery and abuse we have had at the hands of austrians make the romanians angry and therefore want a leader that is just as angry and actually has a spine.
Actually, I believe the KMT stance is not exactly reunification with PRC anymore, they do have to secure the younger voters after all. So now they have slightly changed their stance by saying they'll engage with Beijing with the goal of not provoking them, throwing the independence option out of the windows, and soughting to maintain the delicate balance between China-US. Essentially maintaining the status quo. But I'm sorry if I made a mistake, just trying to tell what I've heard before
@@JadeWhite-xf9xqHi, Taiwanese here. No not really. Please watch the newest interview by DW with Ma Ying-Jeou, the ex- KMT president. He literally said “they want unification with China” (*invasion by China, that is) and “we need to trust Xi”. This is infuriating and disgusting behaviour from one of the top man in his party. Anyway, thanks for caring about Taiwan! 😊
@@vablo7198 I wonder how much the payout is if you bet against putin becoming president. It must be 1000s to 1. Honestly if I could turn 5 bucks into a million I probably still wouldn't do it, a total waste of 5 bucks.
For us in South Sudan, we are going to have our very first elections this year in December. The last elections carried out was in 2010 when we were still the same country with Sudan
As an indian, I want to tell you that Modi will be back again for third term because there is literally no one who is on par with Modi in terms of work, reputation and the smartness. The opposition leader is literally a laughing stock! India needs strong opposition in order to accelerate the growth, but opposition fight on very pity and baseless topics rather than doing proper critical work and actually doing the development!
The problem is .. all the other parts till now have been very much ignoring the needs the demands of the Majority, Because they are too busy pampering the minority, there are many issues that need to be fixed, We need more foreign companies to come to india, We need a 2 child policy We need government to step up the game in terms of making the country clean, NRC and CAA is also must.. Investment in Ethanol, Hydrogen and nuclear energy. And focus more on export.
Well he given results too It stroking people's religious beliefs worked then BJP wouldn't have lose karnataka it's not enough But what can i expect from ppl who follow ped*pgile@askeladden450
Economy is seriously not that good , it's not that bad either. The main problem is with increasing economy, jobs are not increasing and salaries are almost stagnant
that is the world economy lol, its the same everywhere...other countries are stagnating and geopolitics killed demand. India took years to even start working on its infrastructure, now it needs to reduce red tape and corporate taxes to invite investors but they cannot do that so quickly because again beurocracy is insane in India. The recently changed telecom bill was from 1895 for example...like literally over a century old law.@@sidy6526
@@sidy6526Indian economy got doubled in last 10 yrs and per capita income to almost doubled. And about jobs the ammount of companies started operations in India in last 10yrs thy alone given millions jobs. We need better laws like Labour law and farm laws. Sad part is for Indians Jobs means Govt jobs.
not Indians but mostly UPites and BIharis. We gujjus downright h*te jobs, both private and government. Our hardcore business driven culture actually looks down upon jobs as inferior. A gujju dad will marry his son or daughter to an independent tea stall owner than the Google CEO since the latter is a job@@ChoCoMoCo69
Modi is a godsend compared to the BS that we Indians had to put up when dealing with Parties like Congress, AAP etc, who are found in the "INDIA" Alliance, these Parties like Congress are one of the most corrupt parties and have always lied to the people about doing this and that and never even fulfilled half of their promises. BUT, Modi or the BJP has done a great job over fulfilling their promises and the amount of Infrastructure development I have seen happen around me is crazy. The "INDIA" Alliance continuesly put false and baseless accusations like "Economic Mismanagement", like what? India is now one of the fastest growing economies and is doing so many feats in different parts of the economy and these people speak crap like this. PM MODI again for Bharat in 2024 🇮🇳🥳🎉
lol just bcos there are no independent watchdogs or mainstream media left in this country, you think corruption has disappeared. The reality is very different though, modi n bjp has sought to legalize corruption and boost crony capitalism by things like electoral bonds, 90% of which go to one single party, no surprises there. Majority of indians are easily swayed by rhetoric, they can be made to believe anything or everything with the right amount of persuasion. The truth is the ruling class has been enabled to put any puppet they want to power and moidi is their current man
Let the arrogance reach it's peak, let that arrogance corrupt their mind, let that corrupt mind make disastrous decisions, let those decisions hamper common life. Then the almighty God will crush the force thriving all this. And the cycle continues.
@@Cage66666bihar(4 vs 2 scenario), Maharashtra (uddhav,sharad vs eknath,Ajit) and west bengal(will BJP be able to recover from 2021 debacle) will determine the election's margins. Secondly, if mayawati joins the opposition alliance, then it will be tougher for sure.
@@NaSaSh1087where mayawati is popular ? She got badly beaten by Akhilesh and in Up yogi is the face..where will mayawati contest ? Remember yogi win against the coalition last time there
@@siddharthjain9611 if BJP/NDA losses badly in Bihar, Maharashtra and West Bengal (worst case scenario for them), then they can't afford to lose even 1 seat extra in up.
@@NaSaSh1087 Bjp is not losing Maharashtra and bihar. In West Bengal too BJP's popularity is continuing to grow , if Tmc goons don't interfere in elections then bjp is going to get large number of seats in West Bengal.
South Africa definitely deserves a video. Unless you're the PAP (Singapore), no party can be sitting for more than 30 years in power. Change is needed in South Africa, a country with so much potential being shackled by the ANC.
Sitting for more than 30 years in power is not that uncommon even without looking at Japan. What's uncommon is sitting for 30 years in power while driving it into the ground.
Yeah, like the comment above said Japan's ruling party the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) pretty much has been in control of post war Japan till now, and the real election is during their party leadership bid with several cliques vying for leadership. ANC is unique as they stay in power while driving the whole country to the stone age.
@@metyore8341 nah that's extremely unlikely. Really all that the rise of nationalism is in most countries is a rise from a largely irrelevant minority to a significant minority, but a minority none the less. In (practically) every EU country support for the EU is still well over 50%. That doesn't make the trend not concerning (I mean Hitler never got more than about 30% of the vote either, if political stability gets low enough anything can happen), but it's rather alarmist to say the EU is at the point of collapse right now.
We can't discard a surprise this year too. Like Argentina last year, that wasn't on the elections to look for in 2023 and at the end of the year it was being talked about all around the world. Personally the elections I'll look out for are the US, Mexico, and Uruguay
Romania might be an interesting topic. The country will have 4 elections this year, being the first time such an event will occur, those being: -Presidential Elections -Parliament Elections -Local Elections -European Parliament Elections If i recall correctly, the last one had around 30-35% participation, and the previous ones barely touched 50%.
@@forbidden-cyrillic-handleinteresting points you have presented, I shall approach them individually: 1) I'm really not sure if there is such an option available in our ballots, it's been a while since I have voted. I only know 1 method of not voting with anyone, and that is to use a pen and just draw lines into the ballot paper, that is considered a faulty ballot and therefore not counted. The other way of saying "I don't want to vote for anyone" is to not participate in the voting process, which would imply to not participate at all. Perhaps this is why the participation rate is so low. 2) This is hard to respond, never thought about it actually. In such cases, a high participation in voting is crucial. I'm really not sure whether we had a referendum about joining the EU or not, but there was definitely a vote in parliament about it. So, for example, by voting a party who supports entering the EU is like expressing your desire, as a voter, to have your country join in the EU. Same with the contrary example. 3) I can say that there isn't much interest in politics anymore, tho it used to be a couple of years ago. I recall that there was a survey about the most trusted institutions in Romania, the top 3 were the church, the army and the romanian academy. The most doubtful institutions were the political parties, the parliament, the government and the presidency. And this was a survey, would be interesting to see this applied to the whole population. But yeah, i hope that i have answered your points, and take into consideration that it's just my personal opinions. :D
@@fullmetaltheoristas i mentioned this is the first time all of these elections will happen in the same year, which is 2024. Up until now, we only had one election in a year, with few exceptions, where we had 2 elections in a year.
@nickisntmyname7866 fr,its about time they step down,did you see ramaphosas statement on how sasa and other government welfare programs will shut down if anc is not in power?
The European election will probably be an important sign for the direction it will take in the world. Both in terms of geopolitics, as well as in terms of social issues, immigration, national identity and integration. I think it definitely deserves its own video
Can't wait for November elections in Namibia so we can vote for the exact same people the South Africans do for the 7th (one could argue 26th) time in a row🤠🤠🇳🇦🇳🇦 (we will definitely get different, better policy than the South Africans! Right?! RIGHT!?)
Only difference is, Namibia will probably still be a "one-party" state whereas SA will most likely lose that status. In a way, Namibia might be worse off
modi is the real goat. never lost an election in 25 years. now presiding over the fastest growing major economy of the world with 70%+ approval rating.
Indian opposition is one of the most stupid opposition that any country can have. The main leader of the opposition party have lost two times against Modi and is a part of family that was ruling india from 1947 till 2014. The family party just doesn't want to let go of the power from their hands and also give statements that make people hate them even more. They are the reason why Modi will keep winning the elections.
I would consider Modi to be analogous to Vladimir Putin, except considerably less remarkable and less intelligent The ruling BJP operate seems to be essentially emulating Russia - milking out approval rates by controlling the media and the institutions, promote a ultranationalist narrative and undermine not only the enutre opposition but decry the concept of opposition itself It seems to me that Modi is nothing more than just the poster boy, I very much doubt he presides over anything policy-related. He seems to have handlers taking care of his every move
@@rizkyadiyanto7922womp womp get ready for another tenure of 5 years of wonderful economical and infrastructural development and after that get ready in 2029 to cry once again we aint gonna fell for the Congress trap once again
Talk about the Portuguese elections (we have at least 3 this year, Azores, National and European) and it is increasingle likely that the national ones will have to be repeated by September/October!
@@HernasRoom I don't think the recreation of AD helped solidify anything, they made a coalition with dead parties that had no representation in parlament. Chega might have a lot more presence than you think. I also believe PS will take over again with a coalition on the left, but I think Chega will be the second most voted party this year.
Why do you use the word corruption only with non-EU countries? Have you forgotten the post-Brexit scandals in our beloved UK? The PPE contracts corruption, the amount of money lost with the Rwanda deal, etc.. We have to be cautious with words
Awesome video as always, but I have two notes: 1. Khomaini died in 1988/89 the current “supreme leader” is Khamenei (but the mispronunciation is common. 2. The Islamic Republic has already lost legitimacy and is only in power thanks to the IRGC and other military/intelligence style organizations packed with loyalists. Btw I say this as an Iranian residing in Iran.
Last year a lot of people died for a simple hijab issue . I think in iran Hijab should not matter as the whole country is islamic anyway . A hijab would not make it more islamic . Also given iran huge natural resources, they can gain a lot if current political system is abolished. They can become the most powerful country in that region with the highest GDP . Probably will easily cross the 2.5 trillion$+ mark
I think tunisian elections are definitely something to be talked about since it is the only contry that came out of the arab spring with a functioning democracy and is stable socially and somewhat so economically however what the current president kais saied has done in 2021 has been described by some as a coup d’etat . I would love to see A TLDR video about this matter
In almost all of these countries, it seems as if the incumbent parties will come back without much challenge. The exception here is the US where nothing can be taken for granted. Biden seems to be in trouble.
You should do a video on Ireland! There's the referendum, local elections, European elections and then a possible November 2024 general election at the same time as the US and UK!
You forgot to highlight Portugals elections in March 2024 bc of the Prime Ministers Resignation and how thr FAR right Party in Portugal Chega could get into power with overwhelming support for tackling the corrupt politicians on their scandle with TAP airlines and the scandle in Madeira too !
Georgian Parliamentary elections of 2024 certainly deserves its own video, as the country has recently been granted a candidate status and 20% of its territory is still occupied by Russia
Georgian Dream still has no competition. They National Movement is divided, the Dream still has their leader in jail and the Dream's shadow leader has come out in public once again. At this point it's as predictable as Russian elections, especially with the current Georgian demographics, and the youth having no voting power...
is el Salvador a dictatorship? i was under the impression that the public actually want him in charge. having a supermajority ofcourse causes significant issues as he has almost all the power but surely if thats what the people wants who are we to question them
Salvadorean here. Exactly, the big majority of people do love what he has done for the country. He calls himself Dictator to make fun of people who criticize him calling him that
there is no world it will happen in because any decent candidate (not even speaking about good one) are turned down before an election through set of filters like a huge number of signatures from citizens in the short span of time spread through states (a lot of which can be marked as fake) or even earlier on creation of a group of citizens who propound a candidate like what happened with one popular female candidate not so long ago (Duntsova).
Wouldn't make sense, since it's a purely imaginary situation. It's more realistic for him to die during his next term, or the one after it, rather than him losing an election.
There are some corrections regarding the Indonesian upcoming election: 1. The current vice-president is Maruf Amin, while Jusuf Kalla was VP of the previous period (2014-2019) 2. Of all three presidential candidates, Ganjar is the only one seems to be following what Jokowi has established for the last decade, and that is only partially true. Anies has explicitly stated on the presidential debate that he will upturn or change Jokowi's progress should he win, while Prabowo, despite not saying that he will rescramble Jokowi's policies outright, has a drastically different approach to govern. Jokowi poses as an ordinary man who focuses on largely civil interests and/or decentralised economic improvement, while Prabowo sees himself as a strongman (due to his military career) and explicitly states that the power shall be more centralised if he wins
9:01 when 10 Bad guys form an alliance against 1 man you know who the Real deal is! and something Good is there about that 1 guy standing infornt of them
I'm indonesian Jokowi's intervention with the minimum age of the election candidate for some seen as the unlawful intevention of law, but to others, it's seen as the answer from Jokowi to people's request for him to lead for the 3rd time. In indonesia, like most of the democratic countries, a president can only lead for 2 term. Many indonesian realize this. But.... Jokowi is seen as such a rare figure where his 10 years leadership is seen as very satisfying to lots of indonesian since he can make alot of improvement to this country. Not only improving the economy, but also improving the efectivity of law and bureaucratic procedure. Because of this, many Indonesian actualy demmanding that Jokowi will lead indonesia again for the 3rd term. But, instead of accepting that request, Jokowi decided to reject it. This is because he's afraid that changing the maximum term limit, could revive the dictatorship era in this country that already destroyed since 1998. That's why, for many indonesian, Jokowi's intervention to minum age for someone allowed to participate as a candidate in presidential election is seen as the answer for that request. Because with this, Jokowi could asist the next president so that his 10 years legacy could be continued. Moreover, the one who come as the candidate is actualy his son that known for many as someone who's closely resembling jokowi both in characteristic, personality and leadership. Gibran him self already giving proof that he's closely resembling jokowi by running as a mayor of Solo Surakarta city, the same city that jokowi lead for 10 years that catapulting him to become Jakarta governor and now as president of indonesia
Yeah, so many Indonesian overreacted to this act. Let be honest, jokowi was one of the best president of Indonesia and the people want him to take the 3rd term but he know that it's wrong and he decided to stop, we must admit that he still respect our constitution and the spirit of reformation. Gibran himself has proved that he can be a leader, he became a mayor of solo and that's more than enough for a vice president.
Kim Jung Un and the WPK always wins every time. There are no actual elections there since it's just staged for the world to laugh at. The same goes for Russia, Belarus, Iran, and Venezuela, which are rigged to staged elections at all
One thing you forgot to mention in Iran's Election section is that there is absolutely no chance of a pragmatist parliament because of the way MPs are elected. to be able to run for a seat in Islamic Republic's parliament, one must be checked by "The Guardian Council". TGC consists of 12 members which 6 of them are directly appointed by the leader and the other 6 are chosen by the head of the Judiciary, who is appointed by the leader. This ensures that the leader has complete control over the parliament. Since June of last year, people have started talking about boycotting the election and it is surely going to happen based on my observations.
Some parts of Berlin / Germany will undertake to hold a non-disputed Bundestagswahl for 2021 on February 11th 2024! (third run after the repeat of the concurrent local elections in 2022...)
Seeing my country's election being covered by TLDR News in a video brings a smile to my face. Oh, and Ben's attempts at pronouncing Indonesian names, too 😅 Many Indonesians smelled Jokowi's bullsh*t when news broke that 1️⃣ he parted ways with PDI-P, the party that ushered him to win two back-to-back presidential elections; and 2️⃣ that he is backing Prabowo for president in 2024, whom Jokowi fought against in the aforementioned 2 elections. Perhaps people should have smelled Jokowi's dirty agenda earlier in 2019 when he put Prabowo in his cabinet as defence minister. It was not simply a way to "reunite" the divided Indonesian voters, but rather Jokowi's sly tactic to get dissenters on his side and build his political dynasty. The separation of powers in our political system is crumbling, as demonstrated by the allegations of Jokowi intervening the judiciary to let his son run for VP under Prabowo. At this point, Prabowo is simply being used by Jokowi as a puppet to consolidate power. Bit sad considering Jokowi is (or, well, used to be) extremely popular among Indonesians for being one of the few honest, down-to-earth politicians in our country. The presidential election is almost guaranteed to go to a runoff round, since none of the 3 candidates are projected to pass the 50% popular vote threshold. It's now a matter of Anies and Ganjar voters uniting to vote against Prabowo... because if Prabowo manages to steal the other two candidates' votes in the runoff round, then he's going to win the contest with a landslide. (edited for spelling)
Its better for Prabowo to continue. Anies uses anti-government sentiment to gain votes while dismissing the 10 year progress Jokowi made for Indonesia. Ganjar doesn't seem to understand geopolitics and only follow the lady bull's order. Jokowi is better for Indonesia and Prabowo is worth it.
@@slickimz223 Funny to see you mention Ganjar 'doesn't understand geopolitics' when having Prabowo as president is a very weird decision geopolitically as he has a much worse international reputation due to his human right track record. I'd rather have Jokowi's son (which is barely older than I am) as president rather than Prab to represent us in international politics, really. At least that way we would have all three candidates that have nothing to do with new order (that generation should all step down from politics already).
I mean, Prab is old. The chance of Gibran running for the next president is high. Anyways, the OP forget that so many people wanted Jokowi to run for 3rd term.*He should be able to do that considering his popularity and his ability to lower the president age limit* (Why the f it have lower limit anyways? lol.) back to the point, I still think its weird how Jokowi refused to run 3rd term and making his son being a vice president.@@zeroyuki92
Damn no mention of Venezuelan Election. As a brit whos going there this month I really want to know about what exactly is happening at a moments notice
These people are playing games by rules most people dont understand while claiming their ownership over the world as they do so. This is the people's year. It's time to organize. Or we're all watching our last days add up.
There will be presidential elections in Slovakia which may or may not conclude the total takeover of government by leading populist political parties SMER-SD, HLAS and SNS. Which could enjoy some coverage since you've already covered Slovakian Parliamentary elections previously.
I suppose you could technically add the Liberal Democratic Party’s Leadership Election later this year. It’ll decide who will be Japan’s Prime Minister leading into the 2025 Elections. It seems safe to say Fumio Kishida has little chance of winning since he’s so unpopular, he might damage the LDP’s odds of winning big in 2025. It seems the Japanese are getting sick of factional politics, so whoever wins the leadership election probably won’t be from one of the party’s factions.
FUN FACT: the Kuomintang was established by Chiang Kai-Shek, who founded the nation of Taiwan after being persecuted by the communists. Yet some people think they are pro-CCP for some reason...
The United States election may be a huge turning point for minor political parties in the country. The Green Party and Libertarian Party have seen significant support so far, same with independents Cornel West and RFK Jr. Younger people like me are committing to supporting the minor political parties, me specifically, I am voting for the Green Party.
As a Mexican who's not that big into politics, I'm not exactly on board with Sheinbaum being Mexico's president. But my god I would NEVER vote for either PRI or PAN ever again. Honestly, elections here has always been choosing the lesser of two evils
Yeah he won which wasn’t surprising he’s been doing an amazing job in Salvador which makes me think he’ll probably be president for life as long people keep him in power which tells me would be a long time congratulations to Bukele tho
No it won’t. VB is polling High based on general dissatisfaction in Belgian politics and the establishment parties, not because of a wish for independence. Polling in Flanders shows only about 25% support for independence, and even among VB voters, a majority don’t support independence. In fact, a good fourth of VB voters actually state they support transferring more power back to the federal government
@@LordDim1 show me those polls then because i have never met one that didn't want independence, you also forget that NVA is also a flemish nationalist party and despite their rhetoric for confederalism many supporters of the party also want independence, they just don't believe it possible. i'd like to see the query you are refering to
@@istoppedcaring6209 An analysis by the University of Leuven in 2014 found that 15% of NVA voters and 14% of VB voters supported returning more power to the federal government. Only 11% of NVA voters, and 31% of VB voters, supported Flemish independence. Polling in 2021 by the University of Antwerp and University of Leuven mirrors this, finding that only 27% of Flemings supported more autonomy or independence for Flanders. 10% supported the status quo, while 63% supported returning more power to the federal government. KU Leuven 2014: soc.kuleuven.be/ceso/ispo/downloads/Het%20communautaire%20in%20de%20verkiezingen%20van%202014.pdf Uni of Antwerp & KU Leuven: www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2021/05/21/is-de-vlaming-een-flamingant-of-toch-liever-meer-belgie/
Sorry but you're wrong about the Indonesia one. Not all three candidates support/copy Jokowi's idea. Prabowo Subianto and Ganjar Pranowo are the two candidates that likely follow Jokowi's legacy, but Anies Baswedan have a different view. For example, Anies Baswedan oppose the idea to move the capital from Jakarta to Kalimantan because it's too expensive, and the country should spend the money for other priorities.😊 Edit: and I'm pretty sure Jokowi himself NEVER state that all the three candidates copy him. He talks to the media, that he just hoping the next candidate should be the one who follow his step
Nice to know about other elections this year. As an American I have only really cared about our election and oh boy this will be another one for the history books.
Quite off the mark on Iran. Who gets elected has never been a "risk" for Khamenei, the candidates are vetted by the Guardian Council (half of which are directly appointed by Khamenei and the other half chosen by the head of the courts who is also in turn appointed by Khamenei). Also about the low participation, it is clear that it will be the case given that even in the last presidential elections 2 years ago the turn-up was below 50% (unprecedented) so there's little more legitimacy left to be lost in the "eyes of the public".
Most outsiders don't know how iran election work . 2 years back i didn't even knew that election happens in iran. We only knew that iran is ruled by a single person, who has unlimited powers
Rich gets richer, meanwhile the population suffers. The story of every nation, even the so-called anti-bourgeois communist countries. All turn into a pile of shit dominated by oligarchs.
I would love if you could cover the North Macedonian elections. It may not seem important, but from all sources the incumbent government will be removed for a more anti-western one.
Indonesian here 🖐️ (Note: Speaking as a casual observer) I feel like this episode's coverage isn't really representative. From my pov, the term "jokowinomics" isn't really used here, and the candidates aren't proposing very similar pitches. Though the points may sound similar from high level pov, the approaches are vastly different And not all three candidates are looking to "emulate" Jokowi's legacy.
