National elections in any country are special constitutional moments, serious and defining occasions when citizens seek to influence economic and political directions they want their country to take, and specific changes required to meet their basic aspirations in life. Will the coming elections deliver on these broad expectations?
I first voted in the 1969 elections— having attained the minimum voting age of 21 years — and I have voted in every subsequent election, except the notorious 1988 queue-voting elections.
