Election Year

More than one billion people in 60 nations around the world have already voted in 2024 and there are many elections still to go and what is becoming clear is that people, mostly, don’t want things to stay the same.
In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was forced to form a coalition after his Party failed to secure an outright majority and South Africa’s African National Congress also formed a coalition after losing its parliamentary majority for the first time since the end of apartheid.
Russia stayed with Vladimir Putin although it is debatable whether they still wanted him or not but in the UK the Conservative Party were turfed out with the biggest loss in their history following corruption and sleaze scandals.  
Belarus, Panama, Taiwan and Pakistan maintained their leadership although their victories were marred by wide-scale accusations of vote rigging.
Finland changed Presidency as did Portugal, Senegal, Slovakia, South Korea, Iceland, Mexico, Bulgaria, and with elections still to come in Rwanda, Syria, Venezuela, Romania, Sri Lanka, Austria, Georgia, Uruguay, United States and Uzbekistan the political picture could change even further.
Researchers say this widespread yearning for something different largely stems from a sense of hopelessness about poor economic prospects, climate change or disinformation and corruption but whether things will improve for them is sometimes out of their hands.
Looking around the World and some of the leaders in power, and those vying for power, you do wonder if the voters are just voting for the least worst option and it will just be different people doing the awful things the other people got voted out for.