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I was appointed, I'm being appointed, they were appointed...

In fact, it is such an incident that it lays bare how the appointment process works...

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Wow, what an appointment story this is!

Half the country is waiting to be appointed, while the other half is waiting not to be dismissed...

Meanwhile, the appointment of people in prison is another “incident”...

In fact, it is such an incident that it lays bare how the appointment process works...

It seems that when someone is appointed to a position, nobody consults them, and they are not told “face-to-face” why they have been appointed or what they are supposed to do.

In other words, in this country, any of us could be appointed somewhere at any moment!

We should be prepared for that ;)

The fact that both parties in power oppose appointments in their election platforms—and have even said that, once in power, they would prepare a public personnel law to address this—makes the situation even more dire.

Then we ask, “Why don’t our people trust politics!”

Well, how could they?

Speaking of trust, how right is it for a parliament that the people have not given a vote of confidence to remain in office? Let’s go into this a little further; Isn’t it the parliament—the place where MPs, the people’s representatives, go from time to time—that votes on the constitution and puts it before the public?

Isn’t it this very public that said no to the constitution, thereby withholding its vote of confidence from parliament and, consequently, its MPs?

So how is it that the current MPs continue in office despite the will of the people?

What happened to democracy?

Either there is something wrong with our democracy, or we cannot properly choose the representatives we send to parliament to represent us. In other words, the electoral system is not democratic...

Both possibilities mean that this country is governed as if it were democratic.

In other words, as if we had a parliament, as if we had elections, as if we had a government...

We live life in this country as if...

Anyway, to get back to our subject, my humble advice to you is to be ready at any moment as if you might be appointed.

Just in case...

Next thing you know... you’ve become a director.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you—take precautions...

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