Post-poll behaviour: Recounting the sore loser

Demanding a recount after dropping elections is now part of post-poll behaviour all the world over. It gained traction when The Orange-Haired One misplaced the US presidential election and cried, ‘Electoral fraud!’ With Brazil’s voters bringing again former prez Luiz Silva and sending incumbent Jair Bolsonaro again into the backroom.

SOP has been adopted because the latter’s voters now accuse the profitable aspect of ‘manipulation’. Extra according to Latin American custom, nevertheless, lots of them need navy intervention in order that Brazil does not ‘fall underneath the fingers of communists’.

Sore dropping in any subject is an artwork by itself. However in politics, it may be a efficiency artwork of the best ‘low’ order. In India, ever since EVMs turned de rigueur, the very actual ballot-stuffing of the previous was not a kosher accusation.

So, EVM manipulation turned the factor. Whereas that response to defeat has turn out to be extra uncommon, it stands to cause that calls for for recounts will acquire floor.

They’ve the benefit of nonetheless being ‘in accordance with the rulebook’ whereas protecting hopes alive and on the identical time offering the satisfaction of calling the winner a cheat extra immediately. World leaders rapidly congratulated Lula for his win – basically to provide legitimacy to the victory. However, then, world leaders, together with within the US, could be such ‘communists’.