In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

The chasm .......(1).......the needs of the people who struggle ......(2)........ survival, action and inaction by representatives, and lack of remedial justice has compromised representative democracy ........(3)....... Defections from one party to another indicate......(4)........of the basic obligations of representatives, even .......(5).......their own people starve.