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Weighing in on the current debate on allowing voters the right to recall their representatives, the chief election commissioner has flagged off the destabilisation this could bring to the system. As the person in charge of overseeing free and fair elections in the country, he understandably focused on the wherewithal required to sustain such easy recourse to votes to recall legislators and elect their replacements that some civil society activists seek. And, certainly, the bandobast this would need does render it virtually impractical.
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