There’s only so much you can get away with

Fidias Panayiotou’s Direct Democracy failed to prepare its Agora app in time for the House Speaker election — the very vote his party had promised its supporters would get to decide. Two weeks before polling day, Panayiotou was confident his party could win as much as 15% of the vote. Yet when the moment came to actually deliver on that promise of direct democracy in action, the app wasn’t ready.

The broken promises don’t stop there. Direct Democracy pledged transparency — yet has told the...