Constitutional ‘baldness’

Some commercials about so-called baldness and anti-hair fall treatments show someone’s completely bald head without a single hair on it in one picture, a few hairs in a second one looking like recently grafted soil that had been barren before the medicine was used, then a third picture that shows thick hair that supposedly grew after using the medicine for a long period of up to six months or more, during which many bald people would have believed the ad and bought the medicine, making endless profits for the manufacturing company regardless whether hair grows or not. Thus, the ad would have achieved its goal and promoted an illusion!

The repeated dissolutions of the parliament and calling for new elections are just like those illusionary hair fall treatments. An ad would start with a decree on dissolving the parliament due to lack of cooperation between the executives and the legislators, though deep within and underneath, they are but one council run and controlled with the same mentality. After small, little, or even big hindrances here and there that can no longer be tolerated by the ruling authority, they start seeking various reasons to dissolve the parliament, each time with the same result that some of the members of that bald parliament transgressed the limits agreed upon and have to be reminded of the state of constitutional baldness.

Thus the government resigns, the parliament gets dissolved and new elections are called according to the terms set by the authority. Then, the parliament comes back and so does the Cabinet with different names, though the essence of the lack of any political parties remains the same and ministers who are one third of Assembly members, who through favoritism and favors, manage to attract the affiliation of other blocs in order to form the majority needed in a rubberstamp parliament, where members swap places from time to time!

Though some previous parliaments witnessed a few individual rejections to totalitarianism, nothing has been changed since the 1960s, because such parliaments soon get dissolved and new elections are called, or even the constitution gets suspended like what happened in 1976 and 1986. So, in view of the delicate regional situations and security challenges, kindly use this ‘baldness’ medicine for a further six months, a year or two, then declare a severe case of constitutional baldness!