It needs to demonstrate that it is designed to be inclusive, pluralistic and to provide vision for stable and democratic governance in Eritrea. It has to lay the grounds for a fair, inclusive and democratic election It needs to involve a free and independent Electoral Commission that will reassure peoples' fear, wrong perceptions and anxieties. One thing the EDF should not become is to shoulder the responsibility of having sided with one faction or another. It should not be an instrument of any group or any individuals who are not ready to play a fair game in order to come to power through a back door or as the jargon says, by hook or by crook. It should consider to give enough preparation time to people in general and to the victims of the recent war in particular, to gather their thoughts after an impact of a 3 years trench war.
People deserve time to complete the due bereavement process.
Providing such a short time to prepare for elections will undermine the outcome and the value of an important chapter of Eritrean history. This would lead us only to disastrous consequences that I do not want to imagine. The preparation needs to acknowledge that the role of EPLF and ELF has ended the day Eritrea gained the independence. The post independence role of EPLF and ELF should be only to facilitate the hand over of governance and power to the people. Failing to acknowledge and implement this sacrosanct duty will prolong the divisions and sectarian politics that prevailed during the liberation struggle.