The World Is Watching U.S. Elections. Here's What Americans Should Be Watching.

While all eyes are on the upcoming U.S. presidential election, there are several other races around the world you should pay attention to. Taiwan People’s Party candidate Ko Wen-je, who Bloomberg previously called “the wild card,” reportedly argued that he was the only choice that both China and the U.S. could live with, according to The Associated Press. António Costa Pinto, a professor at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, told HuffPost one of the reasons the Social Democrats made the deal was to peel away support for the far-right Chega party and bring “some voters of the populist radical right back into the conservative democratic spectrum.” Most analysts are watching the race for the rise of Chega ― which is projected to win about 15%, more than doubling its vote share from the 2022 election ― and to see whether it would potentially join a right-wing coalition government if offered the opportunity. “If India loses this piece, it will have huge repercussions in the long run.” South Africa — between May and August South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, will face a major test in elections where a young, apathetic populace could fail to turn out in big numbers. While Mongolia is an electoral democracy, the research nonprofit Freedom House points out that “the two dominant parties continue to rely on patronage networks rather than a competition of policy visions, and widespread corruption hampers further development.” The current governing party is expected to win this year’s election, as the opposition remains fractured.