An attempt to hazard a prognosis on the likely outcome of an election process is always tricky because unlike socio-economic trends which are underpinned by relatively more stable factors whose movement and transformation are much slower, however we are dealing with a more intricate and dynamic process which involves shifts in mass views, feelings and passions often influenced and shaped by the work of political actors, individual politicians and parties.
However a comparative analysis of the current state of the various parties as well as sifting of information on the performance of these parties in the past and more recent elections furnish with adequate data to enable us to form a fair estimation estimation of the likely outcome of the pending elections.
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