All right, Alexander, we had three big elections take place last week.

India, South Africa, and Mexico.

Which one do you want to start out with?

I'm going to start with India because, though all three are very important countries. India is the one

that is perhaps one day going to be a great power. And I think we have to start with India.

And the result was unexpected. I mean, most people expected that Prime Minister Modi would win a landslide. He himself

believed that he would win a landslide. He was talking about this. And he expected that his own

party, the BJP, would win an outright majority. And in the event it failed to do so.

And we've seen that it ended up with 240 seats in the Indian Parliament, which is less than is enough even to form a majority.

He has to form a majority by going into coalition with other parties, which he's managed to do.

But the second biggest party, which is the Congress party, which is for decades the dominant party in India,

but which has been on, you know, very steep decline for some time now.

It's now suddenly revived.

It went up from 52 seats to 99.

In other words, it almost doubled its parliamentary representation.

And the coalition, which it leads, the alliance of parties which it leads, which is called, I believe, Indira, they managed to get 236 seats.

So only just four behind the BJB so this is a this was a big blow for

Modi and it means that he no longer remains the you know quite as overwhelmingly dominant a figure in Indian politics as he has been up to now.

And I personally don't think it's particularly difficult to understand why it happened.

Briefly, India, its economy, is producing very high GDP growth rate figures.

Over 7%.

The Indian economy appears to be growing very, very fast.

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