With the results of vote counting trickling in from across the nation many former legislative candidates have begun showing symptoms of stress and depression upon learning of their poor performance in the recent legislative election; some have even resorted to suicide. The Center for Social, Narcotic and Mental Rehabilitation in Bungkanel, Karanganyar, Central Java, has admitted nine former legislative candidates exhibiting signs of mental disorders.
"The nine patients are from West and East Java. Sorry, it is unethical for us to give their identity," Supono Mustajad, director of the center, said Wednesday, as quoted by Antara. Supono said several patients frequently talked in their sleep, asking for their money back because of their failure to gain a significant number of votes. "One patient wants to be nudist and another one keeps silent with horrifying visions," he said.
Your comments: These are the most amusing stories so far concerning these want-to-be thugs of the legislature. The winners in our beautiful democracy are the people with more money; for these people to think they could win with such low "donations" (sumbangan) is amusing. They should have looked at their opponents and seen how much of their cash they were willing to pay voters.
It is so sad for Indonesia, that the biggest winners are usually the people with the most money in their pockets willing to spend it for votes, NOT people with vision to improve the area for the future, or who actually have a thought for other people. Sad, sad, sad.
David K.
These facts make very sad news! The candidates who did not win seats in the legislature decided to take shortcuts and did not prepare themselves for the results. These mental candidates just gave up easily, they only wanted to be winners on voting day (their power coming from their money) and were not interested in their performance.
These facts should be a lesson to all candidates who wanted to be winners and hold mandates from the people. They did not bring honesty nor devotion to the voters to their campaigns, they just thought that voters will vote for them if they gave them money or gifts.
Windy
This is what happens in money politics. We can see poor moral values in these people. I do not think these people would have made good politicians if they had won the election.
Conor
This is awful. What did these legislative candidates have in mind? That they would earn their money back once elected? Did they think of this as an investment? No wonder no one wanted to vote for them. I think people can see through them. Most of them underestimated their own voters.
Thenox
So many aspiring candidates in the recent elections are now suffering from mental stress and depression at having discovered that their election strategy of simply buying votes has failed them miserably. They are shocked that their so-very-obvious palm-greasing tactics fooled very few, and that the votes failed to materialize as they confidently believed they would.
Some are even crying foul and demanding their money and gifts be returned to them by the miserable constituents who cheated them. Spitefully, one of them has even cut off the water supply to those families who live around him; "They didn't vote for me so let them learn what it is like not to have water," he was quoted as saying. Exactly the sort of community-focused leader that was needed.
To read some of the losers comments, one gets an impression that these parasites really do believe in their tiny little minds that they have performed all that was necessary to become a representative of the people, simply by the giving of bribes: They are without a shadow of doubt a species apart, just nasty people who have no respect for anybody or anything except their greed and vanity, and so obviously possessing more limbs than brain cells.
It is divine justice that they have learned a hard lesson and are now suffering financially. If, in them losing everything, it means they will not be able to gain positions of power, ever, it is truly a great result for democracy in action. Perhaps in future elections the lowlifes will remain in the swamp and not emerge to show such a blatant disrespect for voters and the country.
It is, of course, sad that people have died from the shock of the results, but one has to remember exactly what it was that most likely brought about their demise: Did they die because of their immense disappointment?
Denni Hooping
