The incomparable FiveThirtyEight, which looks at politics with a particular emphasis on polling data, has increasingly taken time away from its bread and butter of American politics to look at global politics, especially election issues. Renard Sexton, 538’s international affairs columnist, has a post about Friday’s third leg of Burundi’s three-part election saga, which up to now has not exactly been all that reassuring for those interested in Burundi’s democratic processes. His conclusion? “At this point […] it seems that Friday’s semi-boycotted parliamentary vote will offer more questions than it answers about Burundi’s peace consolidation process.”
