"Elections, accountability and turnover".
And this is anchored on several major pillars: the respect for political human rights, "checks and balances," the "rule of law", the independence of the judiciary, a multiparty system, the holding of regular, free and fair elections, accountability, transparency, and a vibrant civil society.
It's true that Egyptians want elections, accountability, fairness under the law and an eventual stable, secular democracy.
Elections imply accountability, but they do not in themselves transform a country's finances or make its government more efficient.
The end result in Libya, as demanded by the Libyan people, must be a democracy with free and fair elections, government accountability, and rule of law.
"Persons" who are not subject to the same laws as the rest of us, who are able to force their employees to follow the same religious restriction they hold, who can control elections without accountability or transparency, and who can act with impunity sound awfully like the monarchs of old.
The bottom line is that there is no accountability; election equals a lifetime job.
"Our role in the current election cycle is accountability.
The 2012 election brought no accountability moment for right-wing know-it-alls, whose reality-free punditry continues.
