La irrupción de la coronacrisis del SARS-COVID-19 en el contexto de la reelección presidencial en Europa

Abstract

In the year 2020, the irruption of a pandemic generated by a new Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, and its disease COVID-19 was the main protagonist in the social, economic and political scenario, provoking innumerable vicissitudes that changed and impacted the world. However, this new Coronavirus has not yet left, but it has generated a series of consequences that undoubtedly marked the 2020 -2021 and the coming decades. The objective of this research article is to make a descriptive analysis of the presidential reelection process in Europe in the context of this coronavirus and its political effects on the world's democratic institutions. The methodology employed consisted of an updated bibliographic review on the subject, using scientific articles, reports, journalistic notes and statistics from internationally recognized organizations that deal with this topic. However, the political approach in which the consequences of this pandemic on the presidential reelection in European Union countries such as Poland (Andrej Duda), Portugal (Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa) and France (Emmanuel Macron) were captured. In conclusion, the main measures taken by the governments of Poland, Portugal and France to mitigate the harmful effects of the coronacrisis, the management of the medical-health crisis, the response was effective. They managed to anticipate the situation by controlling the curve of contagions and keeping the number of deaths low, and thus also managed to mitigate the economic, social and political impact on democratic institutions.