Election Postponement as Power Tool

Governments may deploy administrative 'reorganisation' or procedural rationales to postpone or reschedule local elections in forecasted opposition strongholds, effectively using bureaucratic rule‑making to reduce electoral risk. If repeated, this becomes an institutional tactic to manage short‑term political survival without formal legal or constitutional change. — Normalizing election postponements as an administrative option would shift the balance of democratic accountability, creating a new lever for incumbents to evade voters and weakening local self‑government.