Well, it's a bit like having an UK election with most Labour candidates disqualified from standing......

...err, well actually, I don't think that's necessarily an entirely bad idea....

Suffice to say that the election is probably a fair one in terms of process, but not in terms of candidate pre-qualification, where few "Reformists" survived (not literally...) the "conservative" dominated vetting process.

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson