By Earl Bousquet
Earlier this year, India and Pakistan’s elections yielded expected results, as did Russia and Mexico, even South Africa.
Europeans punished ruling parties that failed to deliver at home while funding foreign wars at the expense of citizens’ ability to survive.
Yet, every time the election chickens come home to roost, the guardians of the political hen-houses continue pretending they never expected their arrival.
Take how Europeans rebelled in the recent European Union (EU) elections against their governments cutting-off their noses to spite their faces. France and Germany’s ruling parties were hardest-hit, but voters mainly registered their discontent with the cost they pay at home for their governments’ subsidy of the losing proxy Ukraine war.
The war has resulted in two years of worsening social conditions continent-wide, impacting ordinary citizens like never before.
Battered by the economic repercussions of backfired economic, financial, trade and commercial sanctions against Russia over Ukraine, average Europeans became poorer while the rich grew richer, more poorer people eating less -and less being able to survive the harsh conditions of worsening weather patterns.
The writing seems on the wall for the Conservatives in the UK and French President Emmanuel Macron called a snap election to hopefully catch the opposition off-guard, or off-the-back-foot, three weeks before the Paris Olympics.
In South Africa and India, the respective ruling parties both lost their previous absolute majorities, but are still ruling parties after the polls, while sharing power.
The traditional mainstream international press has been avoiding discussing or highlighting the resounding victory of the ruling party’s candidate in the Mexico presidential elections, where two women contested, resulting in election of its first woman president.
They’re also offering bent analyses to avoid explaining why the ruling parties in the UK, France and the USA are facing clear backlash for their military and financial support for Israel in its war on Gaza.
But, try as they may, the powerful nations arming Israel have been unable to restrain the growing opposition to their refusal to force Israel to negotiate a genuine peace agreement agreeable to all sides.
Consequently, youth and students are already voting with their feet at universities in the USA and Europe, while citizens moved by the world’s first televised genocide are registering their electoral rejection of their governments’ policies supporting Israel.
The Biden administration’s support for Israel is already bleeding the US Democratic Party’s traditional support among American Muslims and other voters of Arab or Islamic descent and/or association, while the Jewish lobby’s full-throttle pressure is also being applied on the Republicans.
Over in Europe, France’s right-wing leader Marie Le Pen seems set to become Prime Minister if her party does as well as expected -and feared- in the snap parliamentary and presidential elections on June 30 and July 7.
EU President Ursula von der Leyen’s party has won the most votes in Germany’s EU elections and she’s now pressuring Chancellor Olaf Sholz’s ruling party to bow to her party’s hinted wishes for early elections.
French President Macron is being accused by those shocked by his snap-election call of ‘Gambling with Democracy’ and ‘Playing Russian Roulette’ with elections.
The UK goes to the polls on US Independence Day, July 4 and the US goes four months later on November 4 -and the respective governments’ support for Israel will feature in both.
In the quest to waken Russia over Ukraine, the EU and NATO have seen Germany and Europe lose the vital Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that assured energy at prices 27% of the next-best prices for European consumers, resulting in millions becoming unable to pay light and gas bills, while facing baking summers and freezing winters.
Less people across Europe and the USA can eat, sleep and live well-enough today, thanks to the backfired sanctions against Russia over Ukraine, since making the former the fourth-largest economy in the world.
Resultingly, more European voters are punishing ruling parties for abandoning their responsibilities to deliver election promises. Similarly, Israel’s war on Palestine will definitely feature as a domestic issue among American voters of all walks of life.
But if the millions of feet pounding pavements across the world against Western support for Israel are any accurate measurement of world opinion in the global public square, ruling parties with irons in the fire have no choice but to start marking time, or marching-out in-time.
Sitting candidates in some ruling parties with low chances of victory are already indicating they’ll stand-down for the next elections.
In the UK, the ruling Tories and opposition Labour are outplaying each other to see which’ll win and lose more votes. The Labour leadership even planned outlawing the party’s longest-serving black MP, Diane Abbot, from standing again.
The Scottish Labour party got rid of Scotland’s very-first First Minister of Arab origin and the first Black First Minister of Wales is under pressure to resign, as the traditional UK parties try hard to cleanse their slates of minority leaders, be they women or descendants of immigrants.
Sadly, the electoral punishment of the traditional ruling parties that failed to deliver on election promises doesn’t augur well for voters, but in cases where they have no better alternatives, they simply get rid of the devils they know and pray to the heavens for better guardians against those they don’t know -until they believe their prayers and wishes have been answered and granted. Meanwhile, crucial elections are also due in Venezuela on July 28, where there’ll also be sure efforts by the usual suspects to effect continuing pains to affect regime change.
