Vídeo: “Estado da União”: Escândalos políticos “aquecem” campanha eleitoral

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hello and welcome to State of the Union
I’m Stefan Gro in Brussels when in
January the EU commission appointed
German Christian Democrat MEP Marcus
peeper for a new position as a small
business Envoy it sparked an outcry the
reason Marcos pea scored worse than
other candidates for the plump position
with almost €1 19,000 per month the
recruitment through accus ations of
cronyism as peip belongs to the same
political party as commission president
oosa feline four fellow Commissioners
protested in writing and the European
Parliament in a landslide vote asked
fondel line to resin the hire this week
on what should have been his first day
of work PE pulled the plug he resigned
accusing commissioner TI Bruton of
boycotting his appointment for Party
politics things would look differently
after the European elections with
foreseeable new majorities PE ominously
said when EUR new’s Jack shikler wanted
to comment from the commission the
spokesman was not in the mood I wonder
if you could comment on either of those
allegations he made
no is my
answer you have a
followup sometimes Brussels can be hard
on you that’s an experience that
participants of a Europe far-right
nationalist Gathering made this week the
likes of Victor Orban and Mr brexit
Nigel farage were invited speakers but
the organizers struggled to find a venue
in Brussels willing to host them when
they finally found one police moved in
to shut it down acting on an order by
the local mayor but then the highest
court in the Belgian Capital allowed the
meeting to take place the following day
participants saw the whole incident as a
political hit jog
what’s happened here is now on the stage
of whether is global media we can see
that that that that legally held
opinions from people who are going to
win national elections is no longer
acceptable here in Brussels the home of
globalism what the people Affair and the
arm twisting over the far right
conference have in common is that parts
of the population see them both as a
power play by The
Establishment they point at possible
nepotism and infringement of free speech
has evidence that our existing
democratic system is well rotten
researchers have recently found out that
there is a growing number of citizens
and democracies worldwide who are fed up
with democracy especially elections and
want something else joining me now is
Kevin kazas Samora Secretary General of
The International Institute for
democracy and elal assistance based in
Stockholm welcome to the program it’s
great to be here Stan thank you so much
so your latest perceptions of democracy
survey has found that voters around the
world show widespread skepticism about
whether their elections are free and
fair I wonder who is to blame for this
Donald Trump or Vladimir
Putin I would blame it on
populism polarization and post fruit ER
I think that’s where the the the root of
the problem is particularly polarization
with polarization levels going through
the
roof a lot of people are likely to
distrust the electoral system if their
tribe doesn’t come out on top so this is
a this is a big driver and then in a spe
in terms of a specific people I I have
to think that the impact of what
happened in the US in in 2020 with Trump
undermining The credibility of elections
has had Global ramifications for sure
interesting now distrust in elections is
one thing but there’s also the apparent
desire for a strong and undemocratic
leader what did you find out there’s a
strong demand for what I would call
ocracy ER you know the notion that what
we need is an efficacious government
regardless of whether it’s Democratic or
not out out of 19 countries in eight of
them we find more favorable opinions
than unfavorable opinions towards that
sort of of leadership so I guess this is
a this is a major area of of concern how
should democratic governments respond to
this growing skepticism within their
populations I would say that a crucial
thing is
reducing polarization levels I mean
trying to find common ground with their
political opponents to forge broad-based
agreements to improve the quality of
Public Services because for most people
they a they shape their perception of
democracy in their relationship with the
local policemen in the relationship with
the local teacher at the local school in
the relation ship with the local judge
that’s their experience with
institutions and that’s where most of
the perception of democracy comes from
very interesting Uh Kevin kazas Samora
Secretary General of international idea
thanks for sharing your insights with us
thank you for having
me a country that is struggling to reach
the full Democratic standard is Georgia
torn between a sometimes Kremlin
friendly government and the pro European
opposition for months now despite huge
protests the government is trying to
pass a controversial foreign agents bill
when it was debated in Parliament this
week this happened an opposition leader
punched a senior member of the
government on the
head what followed was total mayam not
worthy of any democracy
the bill would require any organization
accepting over 20% of its funding from
outside Georgia to register as pursuing
the interests of a foreign power should
it become law it would complicate
Georgia’s efforts to join the European
Union but this is probably its
objective that’s it for this Edition I’m
Stefan grober thank you for watching
have an excellent week