Tag: Best Loser System

Interview: Professor Singfat Chu, National University of Singapore

One must be wary of not underestimating the contribution of the Best Loser system to the proverbial harmony between different religious communities in our country

Interview: Bashir Khan – Chagos Refugees Group UK representative — ‘Was Chagos “sold” to the British? You cannot sell anything, let alone part of a country, that does

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

* ‘Nous n’avons encore jamais eu un vrai projet de réforme électorale qui se base sur autre chose que les desiderata des élites’

«Avons-nous tiré les leçons de la malencontreuse alliance avec le PTr de Navin Ramgoolam et de la déroute de 2014?»

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

Party leaders should stop playing such communal games and concentrate instead on the real issues facing the country, for which they have been voted.