(02-06-2017, 06:40 PM)Omega Wrote: In every election until this one, the APC has endorsed a candidate from their party or a candidate chosen through a primary.  And the MoFA thing has fallen through so we will be holding a primary for that one as well. This is a group of people who agree on things coming together to try to make the region better. The APC is not a secret cabal. The APC does almost everything important in public. The APC is not trying to rig the region.

I want to be clear in that I don't think anyone was trying to rig the election. But, I think it's important to understand how others might see it that way.

Which is part of the reason I'd like us to discuss this.

Is it simply a need for *more* parties? If we had three, four or more parties, having an exchange like this wouldn't be nearly as unseemly since it wouldn't constitute more of the political system.