But is this how we want to run our democracy, by dangling cash in front of voters? What next, scratch-off ballots with random prizes for voting “correctly”?

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 1 - Premier Giorgia Meloni has said that Marine Le Pen's conviction on Monday by a French court of the illegal use of European Parliament funds was a sad day for democracy.

It is sad that the kind of democracy we practice here is, ‘government by the few for the few and the interest of the few to the detriment of the majority.” Speaking in a similar vein, ...

It is sad to see how Georgia, once a beacon of democracy in the South Caucasus, is backsliding toward authoritarianism-laws ...