by Eze Eluchie,
In emerging
economies of Sub Sahara Africa, Asia and the Middle East, the United States and
European Union countries serve as champions of democratic values, outwardly striving to
ensure that every country abides by the tenets of democracy, universal suffrage,
that votes get counted and that so long as the outcome of the democratic
process meets so-called international standards that all parties involved in
the process abides with and work towards respecting such outcomes.
These
Western countries have, cumulatively, spent several million Dollars, Euros and Pounds,
ostensibly, in ‘observing’ and ‘monitoring’ elections across Africa and Asia,
always quick to release lengthy and oftentimes scathing reports on the outcomes of
elections into political offices, declaring whether such elections across
Africa or Asia met with the proverbial ‘international standards’ expected of
‘democratic governance’ and similar haughty language. Positive ‘reports’ on
electoral processes by these EU and American Election Observers/Monitors
immediately serves like a ‘stamp of approval, irrespective of whether the
citizens of the country concerned saw glaring wide spread acts of electoral
fraud (as happened during elections which led to the emergence of Liberian
President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf); On the converse, even where the citizens of the countries
concerned have freely expressed their choice and the process was relatively
free and fair, condemnation of the electoral process by the EU Election
Observers/Monitors have led to ‘international economic and political
sanctions’, (as happened during election in Zimbabwe which led to the
re-election of President Robert Mugabe).
It is in the
light of the foregoing, and the general acceptance and acknowledgement of the
fact that the Brexit Referendum conducted in the United kingdom were free and
fair and met with the so-called ‘international standards’ for good democratic
electoral process, that one is astonished at the manner the leadership of the United
States, European Union, particularly the European Union Parliament, have
reacted and are reacting with anger, disdain and animosity to the results of
the Brexit Referendum.
There have
been calls for a rejection of the Referendum results (inclusive of an online campaign seeking to collect signatures
to support a recall – with only 3 million signatures collected so far, the
campaign might have revealed that even far less persons will vote ‘Remain’,
than voted in the Referendum); well orchestrated and manipulated reactions from
the ‘financial sector’ (including a down-grading of Britain by so-called rating
agencies, {spurious organizations which serve spurious interests and were
rubbished when it was discovered that the major financial institutions which
enjoyed Triple-A ratings in their skewed scaled were actually global con
outfits}); and a continuation of threats against the British citizens who voted
to leave the EU.
Why suddenly
the wishes and desires of a people freely expressed in a democratic election has
become an anathema, an outcome all have to rally to disprove, a threat to the
world order and so many other adjectives used to describe the result of the
British EU Referendum vote is really confusing and hypocritical. After very
aggressive campaigning by both sides, the people of the United Kingdom were
emphatic in their choice. Friends of the United Kingdom simply have to support
and assist the British people to make the best of their very bold decision.
It is
critical to realize here that if the outcome of an election in Africa or Asia
had caused half as much uproar in the West as the British EU referendum, for
starters, the armada of foreign election ‘observer’ and ‘monitors’ and their
local hangers on who are intrinsically tied to their foreign funders via
stringent apron strings, would have raised a stinker on how flawed the
Referendum process had been; with cable networks forever hosting interview
sessions with ‘experts’ and ‘eye witnesses’ who will affirm the faultiness of the
voting process; a series of crippling international economic sanctions will
follow, and if all these fail, resort will be had to all manners of unconstitutional
and uncouth means, including the instigation of violent coup d’etat, to ensure
the overthrow of the choice of the electorate.
The push now
appears to be to do whatsoever to punish and vilify the British system and its
people with the intent to dissuade other countries who might be considering a
similar exit from the EU from ever thinking of going that route. Commonsense
would have served to convince scaremongers that such tactics will only serve to
further infuriate those who quest for genuine independence.
It really appears
that democracy, or better still its outcomes, is indeed scaring the hell out of
democrats.
Picture: Emerging
picture of the EU
