This is the dirtiest politics being played wherein first they will imprison the whistleblower and drag their case for ages and when they are in power they won't give a damn and still have audacity to use their names for election purpose. We have seen how ross as well Julius Assange has been rotting in jail, never trust these politicians and rather they need to promise and manifest charges and punishment against department framing then in false cases.
We are seeing a focusing on some things because of the needs for votes. If the current regime want to start proving that they are good, they need to do the things that the opposition has promised. They can do them now... if they are good. It will help Julian and Ross if they do it now. The opposition will follow through if the current regime doesn't do it.
While this is inconvenient to the extreme that things have to work this way, when the country is as large as it is, it takes longer to move it.
Absolutely don't trust the politicians. If you are a US, UK, Canadian, or Australian citizen, bypass the rulings of the politicians by learning the things here
https://www.youtube.com/c/CraigLynch/videos. There are other places to find this info, like right in US, UK, Canadian, or Australian law.