75% of Poll Don't Want Their Ministers Unelected

As recommended by the Carcassonne report. I guess they don't agree with double candidacies too because that's another way we could get unelected ministers. Right?

Collen Saying Berenger Scared of Meeah

Which would explain why the leader maximo does not want the BLS to be abolished. That was yesterday on Radio+ where she was discussing the Sithanen report with Raouf Bundhun. Interesting points made by the well-read Lindsey Collen who always comes prepared.

But she seems to have overlooked the dangerous recommendations contained in that report such as the very anti-democratic provision of double candidacies. Ashok Subron of Rezistans & Alternativ too appears to have missed the elephant three feet away in a corridor with a handful of rice. 

Should Up To 1/3 of Our Ministers Not Need To Be Elected?

That's one of the proposals in the Carcassonne report. Currently only the Attorney General and the Speaker may not have stood in general elections to get into our Parliament.

What do you think? And don't forget to vote in our poll.

Meet The Electoral Boundaries Commission

As the name clearly indicates it is not involved in the preparation of gato batat. Nope. It is rather a very important and independent institution entrusted with a very important task: ensure every 10 years or so that our 20 electoral constituencies have roughly the same amount of people.

But the Commission is allowed to slice Mauritius differently to account for such factors as means of communication, geographical features, density of population and boundaries of administrative areas. The last factor is essentially about trying to make boundaries of towns and villages coincide with those of our constituencies for obvious practical reasons. When the Commission members are done they send their report which could contain recommendations for additions and distractions to the 20 ridings to our National Assembly where it can be approved or rejected but not modified.

Which is why the Carcassonne report didn't contain a wasteful duplication of the work of the EBC.

Carcassonne Report on Electoral Reform Available Here

To download. While you are there don't forget to download the four-volume report of the Truth and Justice Commission.

Maybe we should start with the Carcassonne report. It's only 25 pages long.