We are at Crossroads Politically and Beware of the Political Suckers

We are at Crossroads Politically and Beware of the Political Suckers

My comments (no requests) below are for valid for both Ceylonese abroad and those currently living in Ceylon.

I will keep totally silent once the election is declared and let the officials conduct it fairly and expecting the voters who were hoodwinked for over 70 years exercise their voting rights judiciously, without failing.

Majority of our voters are mature and I bow my head to them and the outcome.

Recent developments are dicey and I wish none of my friends contributes the hard earned money to the campaign in any way.

It has already started and you will be getting emails and requests direct and from third parties for contributions (from the crusaders and jokers).

Ignore them and not a penny of your money should be wasted.

Some of them having collected the money may not even contest or the particular party representing makes no breakdown of the incoming and outgoing expenses.

It never happened and will never happen (until a new constitution is formulated to mandate the requirement).

The current constitution has all the loopholes and fixing them are difficult.

We had a prolong campaign to formulate new proposals and the team that did a very good job handed over the draft proposals to the parliament and all the parties got together and shelved it, until now.

There is no trust on the current members of the parliament and the candidates who are coming forward, thick and thin.

There are lot of jokers presenting themselves and some are coming from abroad and there is not a single national figure to rescue and change the course.

All of them promised to change the constitution from 1990s and none accomplished it having come to power.

It will be the same again but this time with a difference.

The ground reality is none of them will get 50% of the vote for sure.

This is partly due to “The Third Force” which came into existence, still viable and building its momentum and it would decide the outcome.

It will be a rude shock to the system including J.V.P.

J.V.P is trying to buy into this Virtual Third Force (not tested in real life situation, yet) without party bondage and there is no guarantee.

There is a tendency for the jokers in the pack to address this force and make a name for themselves at its expense.

My wish was for this force (not affiliated to any party) to become 40% of the total vote, given the political time, then big enough to undermine the big parties.

It is certainly touching 20% as at present and this percentage cannot be bargained by empty promises.

In this scenario marking the second choice on the ballot paper will become necessary and we do not have previous experience on that issue.

A novelty in practice.

I do not like a second choice and count and my gut feeling is more than 80% is not be willing to go for the second choice.

There is no compulsion to do it either legally.

That is the caveat here and we are left with about 20% of the vote floating and no political pundit will be able to bet on that lot.

That makes this election very interesting and will truly give a cross section of the political wisdom of our polity.

More choices and less concern of the final outcome.

I am sure JRJ never envisioned this and we need to teach him a lesson in his grave.

Average voter can then laugh freely at the wheeler dealer JRJ and his follower MR.

The numbers are in percentages one can derive the total vote by multiplying with the total valid votes casted.