The conservative ruling People Power Party (PPP) wrapped up its selection of candidates for the April 10 general elections in 212 constituencies as of Sunday. The party’s nomination process has drawn enormous attention amid expectations that it would impress voters with what it hopes is a “renovated” selection based on drastic generational change in the current political establishment.

The party’s efforts seemed to be significant enough to cast off its negative image as a conservative party composed mainly of old faces. Disappointingly enough, however, the party has largely failed to do this, thus darkening its prospects of garnering more support from swing voters who have yet to pick their favorite candidates.

For this, the party needs to choose new and young faces ahead of the incumbent politicians. But the party again relied on 90 incumbent lawmakers, of whom less than 16 percent were dropped from the race. Only up to 13 percent of the nominees were in........

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