At the Cabinet Meeting held on Friday 18 December 2015, the Government of Mauritius had decided to set up of a Ministerial Committee to make recommendations on electoral
At the cabinet meeting of 4th November 2016, Government has decided to come forward with a Rodrigues Regional Assembly (Amendment) Bill which is being forwarded to the Rodrigues
The Deputy Prime Minister, Xavier-Luc Duval, was asked to head a Committee, with the responsibility to review the existing electoral system in Rodrigues.
The electoral system for Rodrigues Regional Assembly has been in the limelight for quite some time and, after its conception in 2001, there is an urgent need to
‘If the threshold for the introduction of PR is acceptable, many of the traditional parties may contest on their own rather than getting into artificial alliances’
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