Accra — Most Africans support democratic elections as the best way to choose their leaders - if they see their previous elections as free and fair, and especially if those elections produced a change in leadership, new Afrobarometer survey data show.
In the seventh of its Pan-Africa Profiles series based on recent public-opinion surveys in 34 African countries, Afrobarometer reports that popular support for elections is driven by the perceived freedom and fairness of the balloting process. And the strongest evidence of a free and fair election is a change in ruling party.
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