Discuss (b) closed list

Election = the institutionalised choice — the people's selection of their governors by free, fair and periodic voting. The constitutional grounding: sovereignty resides in the people (the Constitution's opening articles), and the election is that sovereignty's periodic exercise. The importance (the exam's list): (1) the government's democratic authorisation (the legitimacy's source); (2) the accountability's clock (the periodic verdict on the rulers); (3) the representation's promise (1.3); (4) the peace's alternative (the ballot over the bullet — Nepal's own lesson); (5) the rights' exercise (the ICCPR Article 25 three-part guarantee: to vote, to be elected, to participate); (6) the rule of law itself (the loser's submission to the counted result — the peaceful alternation's culture).