Strengthen our democracy and promote integrity in public office

 

I stress, at the risk of boring you, this is yet another provisional opinion. Having braved a day of floods, polling station delays and long queues and four days of tense tallying, our six level elections are now over. If the elections filled you with anxiety, the post-election period should be even more worrying. It is about now that 99 per cent of the country goes back to sleep. Having been whipped into a frenzy of political events, most citizens and the 12,000 unsuccessful aspirants will quietly slip into a state of deep unconsciousness for the next five years. We can call this, Post Elections Sleep Syndrome (PESS).