On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 07:20:17PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 12:09:16PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> I think that is very likely to make the other nominations and >> discussion close to a NOOP. Of course, I'm not discouraging any other >> DD to nominate him/herself and compete to win > >I believe that a DPL election with a single candidate, no matter whom, >would be unfortunate. > >Campaigning periods are some of those few moments when people sit down >and discuss publicly project vision, goals, "politics", etc. A campaign >with a single candidate will diminish the attractiveness of posing >questions to the sole candidate and, as a consequence, the interest of >the debate. More generally, recent elections seem to show that the more >the candidates, the more interesting and useful the debate. > >... furthermore, I'm not ready to give up so easily the possibility of >increasing my free time starting from April 18th :-)
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