This is within the rules but it has a rather undemocratic smell to it. It's not in the same ballpark as ignoring election results but you can see the flags in right field. For all the triple E senate rhetoric of his predecessors he seems to be doing quite the opposite and is doing what I'm sure has happened in the past, but he's just somehow flaunting it.
I'm also not sure how this will be viewed by external investors. Does this really make our leadership look strong and thus instill confidence in the country or does it make them look weak and scared? I'd vote weak and as such I might look towards other places to invest my money...although perhaps global investors have a much thicker skin to things like this and don't really care.
While the polling done seems to indicate nobody cares, I think it's an issue to be addressed in the next election. Again, this doesn't seem to be the sort of thing a party who had marketed itself as different and above all the normal "dirty political tricks" of the past would do. In fact he's shown to be more cunning and "tricky" than previous governments.
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