Lessons from the 2018 presidential polls (2)

Common sense instructs us that for the history of a people to continue to repeat itself over and over, represents a bad omen for a people who aspire to move forward in the midst of a competitive world. In our editorial in the last week edition featuring a series projecting the lessons we have learnt from the just concluded presidential elections, we did indeed regret that, be it its predecessor, the Supreme Court, which has now been replaced by the newly constituted Constitutional Council, history has kept repeating itself rather frivolously in our election process. As a diagnosis, we did…