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he elite in Indonesia uttered deceptive statements related to the 2014 legislative election. As if with no moral burden at all, they say that the April 9 election was '€œsuccessful, just, good, securely implemented and peaceful'€.

Whereas evidence has emerged that the election was riddled with fraud, money politics, major psychological stress and compulsive actions in a grab for power.

Thus,the 2014 legislative election, paid for by taxpayers and the government, has resulted in pain for the public.

This recognition is crucial to acknowledging the reality of psychosocial pain and to stop continuous unhealthy defense in the form of denials.

The psychoanalyst Neil Altman said that kind of defense was a '€œdenial of psychic reality'€, and he categorized it as one of the manic defenses aimed at refusing social responsibility.

Such denial hampers the nation to realize the need and forms of corrective action and improvement for itself.

All state institutions related to the planning, execution and supervision of the election also deny its ugly aspects.

They seem unaware that the denial prevents the nation from implementing corrective efforts to achieve better elections in the future.

After the announcement of the results of some quick counts, as quick as lightning, the leaders of political parties dropped all pretenses and showed their real characters, which were starved of power.

They also blatantly showed their desire to use power to satisfy their materialistic lust, like the '€œmanic elite'€ described by the psychoanalyst Rachael Peltz.

The manic property is characterized by the elite'€™s euphoric behavior and extreme pride concerning the quick counts.

Although not so significant, the elite savored the percentages, as the figures represented their perceived amount of power.

In a highly elated mood, they indulged in discourse over potential coalitions, which are essentially plans and strategies of power transactions and assorting positions.

Most political party leaders did not show they remembered the needs and interests of the common people, as reflected by the largely absent details of people-centered programs.

Amid this manic psychological atmosphere, the elite are unaware that their actions are hurtful to the public. Their talks just merely consist of tricks and insincere strategies to gain positions and power for themselves. The election has conditioned the elite for being delirious under the shadow of power that gives them the pleasure from the ongoing quick counts.

For the public at large, experiencing that pain without denying it would drive them to insist the elite discontinue their plans and strategies of satisfying their own materialistic lust. People should push the elite to explain transparently and honestly.

People also need to insist each of the presidential and vice presidential candidates announce their prefered members for the new Cabinet.

Therefore, the widespread pain following the election must result in demands for transparency from the elite, regarding every step they take in the post-election period, including in the presidential candidacy.

That is the rational consequence of public courage following their recognition of that pain, which the elite would not be able to avoid.

Insistence of transparency will continue to remind the elite to stop deceiving people. The 2014 legislative election should not be followed merely by the elite'€™s agenda, pursued in a closed and intransparent manner. The elite who tend to drive people to choose a pig in poke are not eligible to be supported.