2024 is the year of elections.

Taiwan!

Taiwan!

Taiwan!

Taiwan,

Taiwan, India, and El Salvador are among more than 60 national governments conducting elections

this year.

It's now half time in the calendar year and we have already seen some dramatic changes.

Just this week the far right in France won the first round of snap elections.

Here's current French Prime Minister Gabriel Atal.

I made in our democracy the Assembly National Current French Prime Minister Gabriel Atal.

He says, never in our democracy has our parliament risked being dominated by the far right.

And in the UK polls show that voters are tired of the conservatives who have held power for 14 years.

Brits seem ready to elect a liberal prime minister this week.

When we step back and look at the last six months of elections, there are some clear

trends. Although democracy around the world has been declining for well over a decade,

it has done surprisingly well in many elections this year, such as Senegal.

That's 44-year-old President Bessiru Diomy Fai. In April, he became Africa's youngest elected head of state.

Another trend, in many countries, incumbents are struggling, often because voters are dissatisfied with the economy.

That happened in South Africa, where people like 49-year-old in Kossinati and Tiani voted against

the party of Nelson Mandela.

I'm here to vote for the

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