How it has been allowed to descend into such a mire is perplexing. I don't know how you control it but you would assume there would be certain rules attached to running for office- dos and donts that an applicant would be legally obliged to adhere to to prevent this kind of stupidity. Maybe they need to introduce it if it doesn't exist. Maybe they just assumed you would have relatively sane people applying for the job, or at least high functioning psychopaths who can pretend not to be complete lunatics.