'What Variety Of Democracy?': PM's Economic Advisor Sanyal Attacks V-Dem Over Sweden's Plan To Cut Migration
News 18Sanjeev Sanyal, an economist, author and part of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, has attacked Sweden’s Varieties of Democracy Institute, questioning the nation’s latest plan to cut migration. The Gothenburg-based V-Dem Institute in its 2024 report released in March had called India one of the “worst autocratisers" in the world in recent years. Am sure the supercomputer at @vdeminstitute can compute exactly how…— Sanjeev Sanyal August 16, 2024 Sweden has a voluntary exit scheme — 10,000 Swedish crowns plus travel costs — for refugees to leave the country. The country remained an “electoral autocracy" at the end of 2023 after first being categorised as one in 2018, the institute said in a report titled ‘Democracy Winning and Losing at the Ballot’.