apathy

Why youth apathy in elections bodes ill for Kenya

Why youth apathy in elections bodes ill for Kenya: Kenyans queue to vote in the 9 August 2022 election. John Ochieng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Kenya saw a decline in the number of young people who registered to vote in the August 2022 elections. This group’s share of the 12.1 million registered voters dropped by …

Chile: voter apathy could hand the presidency to far-right inheritor of the Pinochet legacy

Chile: voter apathy could hand the presidency to far-right inheritor of the Pinochet legacy: Far-right politician, José Antonio Kast, has come away from the first round of the Chilean presidential elections as the candidate with the highest percentage of votes. He will face former student protest leader Gabriel Boric in a fiercely contested run-off vote …