At the opposite end of the state-citizen relationship, the government’s permanent “pay early, pay less” traffic summons system reflects a similar logic. When everyday law is structured around price incentives rather than fixed penalties, it reinforces the perception that rules themselves have become conditional. Against this backdrop, GE16 risks being dismissed as a managed process, stripped of decisive civic force. If corruption increasingly meets with justification or indifference, the challenge confronting GE16 ceases to be purely political. In a state where rules have become terms, that refusal remains the final line of institutional self-defence.

Source: The Edge Markets February 11, 2026 03:34 UTC