Leigh-Pastor Charles writes:
The recent local government elections were swift, efficient and had some shameful results for the usual suspects.
I cannot stop wondering how much more as citizens we can get out of the current state of the nation.
Believe me, this is the true state of our nation and not the gobbledygook presented to us by the president and his speech writers at the advent of each year.
The reality is that we are sick of their brand of politics and it is evident in our actions at the poles, where even spoiled ballots amounted to more than many parties attained in any support for the filth they spoke in their manifestos and posters.
It is now time to speak with the IEC and its lame efforts in managing elections.
In this, I think we should start at the very beginning. It is time to move beyond the living as a commission.
Commissions are temporary, ad hoc and for a single season.
As voters of this free nation, we deserve to have a formal statutory institution with an elected board of national and provincial governors.
Each board position must be elected into office for a 20-year term subject to conditions of performance and adherence to the policy of cause.
When this has been established, we will be able to settle the monitoring and management of a sterile zone inside which elections can be conducted, with all the bells and whistles of risk management, crowd control and unwanted late electioneering.
