Some basic questions for voters and candidates in the May 2016 elections

By this weekend, we should know officially all those who would be running for President and Vice President in the May 2016 elections. This compels us to raise some basic questions to the voters and the candidates.

Most, if not all of them, are self-nominated. We have no political primary or party conventions as they have in the United States, simply because we have no real political parties. Our political parties exist only nominally, as flags of convenience during and after elections, but never as the serious political mechanisms they are meant to be in mature democracies.