Interview: Thomas Eriksen, Professor of social anthropology — * ‘I think it is premature to do away with the Best Loser system… …If and when Mauritius truly becomes
Interview – Sada Reddi – Historian “Rodrigues Elections: PR has made the system more democratically representative. Whether it makes for more stability will remain an open question’ *
Elections were held on Sunday 12th February for the Rodrigues Regional Assembly (RRA). There was an 80% turnout of voters numbering in total some 28,000. This speaks highly
The leader of the MMM, the high priest of proportional representation is up to his usual shenanigans and contrived arguments to try to justify the unjustifiable… No one
An electoral reform has become an absolute necessity after the Banwell Report of 1966 which has served our purpose for the last 50 years At the Cabinet Meeting
On 22nd December 2015, Cabinet took the decision to set up a committee headed by the Deputy Prime Minister, Xavier-Luc Duval, and consisting of ten other ministers to
It is not for the roundly disavowed opposition but for government to drive the national agenda which best responds to the priorities and needs of the people
Any proposal from any political party or alliance should be open to scrutiny and analysis. This exercise, to be worthy of consideration, should be based on a principled
The main concern – l’enjeu principal — in the forthcoming general elections is nothing other than what has been referred to by politicians as the “Second Republic”. This
For so many months since the beginning of the year the national political agenda was almost exclusively dominated by the search for a solution to the allegedly divisive
In the face of difficulties, governments may feel inclined to take the path of least resistance and yield to pressures and grant privileges to specific groups. It is