Politicians are sceptical that it will bring results; all three parties are already gearing up for a second election to be held on either June 10th or 17th.
He governed for a short period after 1964, when Labour got a very small majority, and after February 1974, when Labour did not have a majority at all, and then went for a second election to seek a stronger position.
But in different guises, hostility to the EU lurks in most countries.When Greek voters threatened to reject the Brussels consensus last May, the threat of being chucked out of the euro persuaded them, in a second election, to choose mainstream parties willing to submit to creditors' demands.
On the other hand, Mr Erdogan might opt for a third election in order to get his way, recalling for one well-read observer the king in a Saki short story who holds an election every day until his subjects cry for mercy.
The contenders: Incumbent president, possible Freemason, and designer of 160-foot vanity statues, Abdoulaye Wade, was expecting to sleepwalk his way to a third election victory.
"There's a certain exhaustion and very little appetite for a third election, especially if it has to be on 25 December, because the impression is that the second election didn't provide a solution to the stalemate, and it's negative in that it just widens the gap between citizens and politicians," says Antonio Barroso, an analyst at the political risk-advisory firm, Teneo Intelligence.
Even after he appeared to steal a third election, the American ambassador in Lima, John Hamilton, attended his inauguration last July.
Mr. Brown met such talk with the frosty retort of a man recently beaten, and perhaps none too excited to endure a third election in three years in a state where his prospects will always remain uphill.
People here tend to judge the truth of these conspiracies according to whether they support or mistrust the governing party, which has been in power for eight years and is on track to win a third election victory next year.
It is the responsibility of all of us who want to see a fourth election victory to give him our support.
