Mauritius is not an exception. Let the local political class not kid themselves. The people are fed up with all the political class and their leaders irrespective of
A rainmaker in popular parlance is a person who can bring new business or new accounts through his personal standing or portfolio of contacts. It should not be
The Electoral Supervisory Commission and the people of Mauritius have once again demonstrated their attachment to the democratic traditions of our country by organizing and participating in yet
“As opposed to the 1967 general elections, which were truly turned into a referendum for or against Independence, the forthcoming one fails to offer such a clear-cut choice.
It is incumbent upon the Labour Party-MMM Alliance to convince the voters that they are in the game of “conviction” politics as opposed to opportunism The expectation is
The dominant rationale is that the relevant statistics are overwhelmingly in favour of a huge win in favour of an alliance of the two strongest parties in the
A substantial majority in Parliament does not make a “strong” government. The Alliance will be anything but a monolithic group and will permanently be criss-crossed by a variety
Barring any last-minute disagreement between the leaders of the Labour Party and the MMM, we will hopefully take cognizance of what looks very much like a forceps-assisted ‘in
A few weeks ago in the midst of the euphoria about the nearly completed Labour Party-MMM Alliance we wrote that anything was still possible since there were still
What was meant to be an open-and-shut case regarding the adoption of an electoral reform agenda followed by an alliance between the Labour Party and the MMM, or