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8 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Speaking at the Horasis Global Meeting this morning in a session on democracy with Esko Aho, Former Prime Minister of Finland, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Former President of Latvia, Sundeep Waslekar, Founder, Strategic Foresight Group, India, Randa Fahmy, Founder, Makeup America!, USA Image
, and P. Gunasegaram, Executive Director, Sekhar Institute, Malaysia. Gunasegaram talked about “undemocratic democracy” in Malaysia. Esko told us a long tradition of the rule of law, trust in institutions, and social mobility driven by investments in education are why democracy
thrives in Scandinavia. Randa said she had been taught “America was the gold standard in democracy, but we are not”. Vaira recalled that Latvia’s desire to join the European Union and NATO pushed Latvia to massive democratic reforms. I spoke about the challenge of democracy in
Nigeria from my personal experience as a presidential candidate.

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