Can we call off the May 9 elections?

More nervous

As May 9 draws near, we find ourselves more and more nervous about the viability of the elections. What we are hearing officially from the Commission on Elections, its Venezuelan partner Smartmatic and the various presidential players gives us very little reason to hope that we are going to have a clean, honest, transparent and orderly national election. Whether our “comatose democracy” will survive or be finally killed and buried in this election is a question I have asked in a previous column; to that, I have not found an easy answer. So many are even beginning to ask whether or not there is a real need for this election.