{"id":37950,"date":"2022-04-25T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T12:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=37950"},"modified":"2022-04-25T12:59:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T12:59:49","slug":"autocratic-leaders-threat-to-democracy-discussants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=37950","title":{"rendered":"Autocratic Leaders Threat To Democracy \u2014 Discussants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The election of autocratic leaders is threatening fledgling democratic states, especially in Africa.<br>This was the view shared by speakers at a dialogue on factors contributing to the erosion of democracy in Africa and Europe.<br><br>According to them, the emergence of autocratic governments which seek to overstay their terms in office was undermining democracy.<br><br>The speakers included the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia; a lecturer at the Department of Communications Studies of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), Dr Lawrencia Agyepong, and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Akwasi Osei-Adjei.<br><br>They expressed the views at a roundtable on: \u201cSustaining democracy in the context of erosion: Lessons from Europe and Africa\u201d, in Accra.<br><br>The event was jointly organised by the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG) and the Centre for Democratic Development, Ghana (CDD).<br><br>Unbridled control<br><br>According to the speakers, such autocratic leaders often desired to have unbridled control over institutions such as the Judiciary and the Legislature, thereby undermining democratic governance.<br><br>Such behavior, they added, had largely contributed to the frequent coups d\u2019etat that had often de-stabilized the sub-region, where young people felt let down by their governments for excluding them from the governance process.<br><br>\u201cWhen you have elected autocrats, they attack the very institutions that are supposed to help build democracy and help them deliver the goods.\u201d Mr Nketia said.<br><br>He said elected autocrats used democratic institutions, such as the courts, the media, electoral bodies and the legislature, to kill democracy.<br>\u201cThese are institutions that are calibrated in every democracy to regulate the use of power, but these are the very institutions which, when handed to autocrats, begin to compromise and weaken them because they see those institutions as limitations to their power,\u201d he said.<br><br>Dr. Agyepong, for her part, said many young people, with the help of social media, had grown to appreciate that democracy had failed them, hence the need to mobilize and try to fight the system.<br><br>She lamented the environment where the courts were perceived to be working in favour of the government.<br><br>Democratic sham<br><br>Mr Osei-Adjei expressed concern over the way some countries were electing dictators who paraded themselves as democrats but undermined institutions that ensured checks and balances.<br><br>\u201cIt is the checks that will promote democracy, but where we do not have the democratic institutions to check, then our democracy will be a sham,\u201d he said.<br><br>For his part, a Senior Mediation Advisor to the UN, Dr Emmanuel Bombande, called for holistic reforms of the democratic system in the world.<br><br>\u00a0S<strong>END A STORY:<\/strong>\u00a0Do you have a story for us or need a promotion\/advertisement? 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