The ‘future’ and the 2021 presidential election
December 30, 2020
Written by ADVENTINO BANJWA
Deplorable state violence and repression against citizens, who are participating in a state-sanctioned electoral process, has rightly captured critical attention of many commentators lately.
If one thing is clear in these discussions, it is that endorsing the official talk of Covid-19 guidelines, as a justification for the ongoing state violence and repression, is an act banked either on deliberate forgetfulness or short memory: conducting elections in the midst of a pandemic was not the only alternative available on the political menu.
All major opposition parties in the country were unanimous on the need to postpone the 2021 general elections due to the constraints the pandemic necessarily imposed, and the impossibility of holding meaningful campaigns under the circumstances.