The Intelligence: 2024 is a big year for democracy
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🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Citizens across more than 70 countries will be heading to the polls over the next twelve months. It’s a record year for voting, but how democratic will the processes be? One of the year’s most significant elections will take place in Mexico, where the incumbent president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will loom large. (10:35). And, how ambient music can help you block out the noise. (17:44).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. I'm off this week. |
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| 1:00.8 | The Economist. |
| 1:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:12.5 | And I'm Oire Ogunbei. |
| 1:14.5 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:21.2 | Mexico strictly limits its president to one six-year term, |
| 1:25.4 | and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is getting towards the end of his. |
| 1:29.4 | In the first of our week-long series on Democracy Around the World, |
| 1:33.1 | we ask why he will loom so large in and after June's election. |
| 1:38.3 | And do you prefer to work in silence? |
| 1:41.6 | Or like many others, do you pop your headphones on and look for an ambient |
| 1:45.7 | music playlist to be the soundtrack to your day? It turns out that the white noise could help |
| 1:51.5 | you be more productive. First up, though. |
| 2:16.0 | As the new year begins, it's worth taking stock of 2023, a year that saw some surprising election results. In Argentina, |
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