Discuss (c) The 2008 mixed system

Election = the institutionalised choice — the people's selection of their governors by free, fair and periodic voting (the democratic legitimacy's only renewable source: sovereignty resides in the people — the Constitution's Article 2 — and the election is that sovereignty's exercise, Article 4's "people's competitive multi-party democratic system"). Election law = the whole body of rules that makes the choice real: the franchise's definition (who votes), the candidacy's terms (who may stand), the system's design (how votes become seats), the administration's machinery (who runs it), the campaign's discipline (money, speech, conduct), and the justice's remedies (disputes, offences, tribunals — Unit 7). The importance (the exam's list): (1) the government's democratic authorisation; (2) the accountability's clock (the periodic verdict); (3) the representation's promise (Unit 3); (4) the peace's alternative (the ballot over the bullet — Nepal's own lesson); (5) the rights' exercise (ICCPR 25's three-part guarantee: vote, be elected, participate); and (6) the rule of law itself (the loser's submission to the counted result).