Perhaps the time has come for direct presidential elections

16 June 2024 - 00:02

The writing had been on the wall from the very beginning. Yet many of us stayed up waiting for the results. Some would change channels to catch up on the opening match of Euro 2024, where Germany was taking on Scotland; others killed time with telenovelas and other forms of entertainment offered by television and the vast virtual world that is the internet...

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