Eritrea’s democratic failure – by Professor Kjetil Tronvoll

Eritrea’s democratic failure – by Professor Kjetil Tronvoll

Eritrea has no functioning constitution, no elected parliament, no independent judiciary, no free press, and no opposition parties. The president who built this system, Isaias Afwerki, who turned eighty in 2026 and has led Eritrea since 1991, has never submitted himself to an election, has buried the only constitution his country ever ratified, and governs by personal fiat from a rural compound outside the capital, Asmara. There is no succession…