So, today provides us an ex-cathedra opportunity to review the state of our democracy under the incumbent state actors. June 12 symbolised free voting and fair elections and the spirit of June 12 is routinely violated by current state actors. Even as we celebrate democracy today, the trend still looks gloomy. This ghastly spectacle combines with the absence of internal democracy in political parties to make a mockery of our extant democratic process. As things are, it appears that the forces that conspire to annul June 12 have reduced the quality of democracy to semi authoritarian civil rule rather than democracy based on the rule of law.

Source: The Guardian June 12, 2020 04:07 UTC