Amidst the Zuckerberg-Government dispute, know which big countries had a government change in 2024?

The world knows Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Meta-Facebook. The world listens and understands his words very closely. In such a situation, when Zuckerberg expressed his opinion on the election results of India by participating in a podcast, the Indian government got upset. Zuckerberg had said – 2024 was a big election year across the world. In most countries like India, the current government lost the elections. Calling this statement of Zuckerberg wrong, the country's Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnav took the front on behalf of the government. Vaishnav is also looking after the responsibility of the Railway Ministry.
What is the background of the controversy that arose due to Mark Zuckerberg's statement? If we look at data from the Pew Research Center amid this controversy, we find that the year 2024 has been challenging for the ruling party all over the world. In many places, these parties lost the elections, while in some places they returned to power with great difficulty. Zuckerberg is presenting the difficult return to power as a defeat to the world. First of all, let us talk about those countries where the ruling party suffered a crushing defeat in the elections.
The year 2024 was very important in terms of elections.
This year elections were held in at least 60 countries of the world. According to a study by the Pew Research Center, this election was not only very challenging for the ruling parties, but traditional political parties were also wiped out in many places. The reasons for this were economic inequality, post-Covid conditions, cultural reasons, rampant inflation, massive public resentment against the status quo of political parties, and many other reasons. How was this a difficult year for incumbent governments?
America – Presidential elections were held in America. Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris lost badly. Now Joe Biden is leaving. Next week, Republican Party's Donald Trump is going to be the new President of the country. The public's anger against the Democratic Party was so fierce that they could not maintain their presence in any house of the US Parliament. This was the third consecutive election in American history when the current ruling party was defeated.
Britain – Now let's go to Britain. Here in the United Kingdom too, there was a change of power. Yes, the difference was that the power shifted from the right-wing party to the left-wing Labour Party. The Conservative Party and its leader Rishi Sunak suffered a huge defeat in the elections. The Conservative government which was in power for 14 years in Britain fell in one stroke. Now Keir Starmer of the Labour Party is the Prime Minister of the country with a huge majority.
Botswana – The discussion of elections will not be complete without talking about the South African country Botswana. The most dramatic election results were in this country. Here, for the last sixty years, only one party – Botswana Democratic Party – was in power. But they were defeated in the elections last year. The opposition party formed the government.
South Korea – Elections were held last year in South Korea, which is currently in the news. The opposition Democratic Party got a majority here. They proved their majority in the National Assembly. Currently, the government is taking action against the President for imposing martial law. All this was possible only because of the National Assembly.
Here, note that apart from Sunak (Conservative) in the UK and Democratic (Biden) in the US, existing governments and many political parties with traditional ideologies have been wiped out in countries like South Korea, Ghana, Panama, Portugal, Uruguay. Now the opposition has come to power here.
Where the ruling parties suffered a setback
Yes, in India, Japan, South Africa, France the ruling party won the elections again but not with the same vigour, it got a good shock in these elections. Let's see how.
South Africa – The African National Party was in power in South Africa since the end of apartheid. But it could not get a majority in the elections held there last year. It formed the government along with its allies.
Japan – Here the Liberal Democratic Party has been in power since the Second World War. But this election was not good for it and its ally Komeito Party. Both the parties had to lose the majority they had in the Parliament.
India – You know that in India, Narendra Modi did become the Prime Minister for the third time. But not as the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Rather, as the leader of the NDA. He could not form the government on his own for the third time.
France – President Emmanuel Macron's decision to hold mid-term elections in France was a huge blow to him. Macron's coalition suffered a major setback in the elections and then he has to run the government with great difficulty by making changes at the level of the Prime Minister.