No game changer in sight

No game changer in sight

The laws and bylaws governing our election (J.R.Js bizarre Mantra or Kumantrana election) is repugnant.

Only the first two who puts the head beyond the tape is valid.

The third at the tape is severed by the tension of the tape.

What it means is that the race is tight and is not one horse race.

It is tight and no one will get the required 50% due to their own folly of putting dummy candidates, preferring them to vote the second preferential vote.

This election will be known for delay in declaring of the result.

There will be violence soon after the election (pent up emotions subdued before the election will come out like a cork of a bottle of good wine) and nobody will get over 45% (my original analysis was 40% but I wish to revise it due to large margin of error).

Ceylonese voters are known for huge surprises and the voting pattern of the first voters and the non-committal intelligentsia will determine the outcome.

So my advice is for you to buy few extra pints of beer (there are bottles now for Rs.360/=) and or V.S.O.A and stock them for consumption and not for resale with hiked prices.

The hording is already on!

I do not go for arrack since majority are adulterated and unluckily for our neighborhood, there is no proper bar but liqueur transported in polythene bags (one, two or three tots packed in small polythene bags and then put in a large black polythene bag).

I of course broke my self abstaining of 9 months (including liqueured chocolates) briefly for a lemon gin in my favorite bar and diluted the peg with tonic and a big fish soup and would go back to my abstaining routine until the election is over.

The simple reason I drink ONLY spirits not taxes imposed on them and I want my friends coming from abroad to bring bottles of wine not arrack without taxes.

Well my favorite is now iced lemon tea or cinnamon tea but due to poor quality of tea I am now leaning on coffee.

Now a brief quotes for the three front runners without naming them.

One’s understanding of ground level politics is worse than J.L. Pieris and reads a prompt like a parrot.

The other is totally obsessed with Podions and simple Simons (if you use these words now one will get a hit on your head with a Kithul Polla) and forgets to address the economic and debt traps of this country.

The third is totally confused in strategy and spoils the soup for the second by pretending to be the game changer.

None of them is a game changer and poor voter has to bite the dust.

A piece from one editorial comment below.

By the time you read next Sunday’s issue of this newspaper, the presidential election would have been concluded and Sri Lanka’s seventh executive president declared, and hopefully sworn. That is, of course, if there is no delay in the counting as neither of the two principal contenders had one vote more than the magical 50% of the ballots cast. If that be the case, second and third preferences of the voters favouring the lead contenders will be counted and added to their tallies. If either still does not reach 50% plus one, the candidate polling the majority of votes will be declared the winner.