Should Uteem Lose His Presidential Privileges?

Given that a couple of years ago he did something Mauritians don't expect their former Presidents to do: get back on the soap box. The fact that he didn't find it strange for SAJ to go back to active politics fooled no one. We now hear that he is still considering making another dip into partisan politics.

I think he should lose them. What about you?

President Uteem Reminds Partisan Crowd That Son is Candidate

That was on Saturday at the May 1st rally of the MMM in Port-Louis. This stunned the whole nation because we don't expect a former President to go back to partisan politics. And that's all the more surprising because Cassam told us about a month ago that he had finally understood why he shouldn't stoop that low.

He was also very happy to tell a crowd of "several hundreds of thousands of people" (L'express which is a little more than a loudspeaker of the MMM has estimated the crowd at 18,000 to 20,000 people) that we have to be careful and make the right choice (that is vote for his old party the MMM) to avoid Mauritius from becoming a dictatorship.

Looks like the judgement of the former President has become seriously impaired because a few weeks back he was trying to broker an alliance between the MMM and the Labour Party.

Well, maybe not if Ramgoolam has transformed himself into a little Hitler in the meantime.