Mental hospitals are on standby! Emergency cases expected! No, not an explosion of drug use, or even an emptying of the prisons as a result of the Supreme Court decision that convicted drug users should not be incarcerated in prison, just incarcerated in (probably less humane) 'rehab centres' (see Iron bars a cage).
No, this is for the parliamentary candidates who don't get elected. Although some might feel that they should have considered this as an alternative to becoming candidates, there is fear that a significant proportion will require mental treatment as a result of losing everything in their effort to represent their community. Many have hocked all they own to raise money for their campaigns, and clearly are unqualified for any form of productive employment.
I forget how many candidates there are from the more than 30 parties for around 500 assemblies (nation, provincial and district/municipal), but it runs to more than a hundred thousand. If only one percent 'go mad', that's a lot of candidates for the asylums - someone estimated it far exceeds their overall capacity. So it'll not just be the prisons that'll be overcrowded! And most of the mental hospitals are also rehab centres for drug users!
Babé
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