New election, old platitudes

People do not remember what was said some years earlier, let alone what manifestoes contained.

Barring a surprise ruling from the Supreme Court against the dissolution of the House of Representatives, it seems quite certain that we will soon be fully immersed in election season. Unfortunately, where the expectation of a fresh popular mandate for a new government should have engendered hope for the future, things are increasingly beginning to look more like the past. Instead of a dramatic makeover of the political system that one dreamt possible for a brief instant after the Gen Z revolt, even cosmetic changes are quite scant.