Like you all know here in Mauritius, as well as in
Rodrigues and Agalega, we entered the phase of general elections which will be
held on Wednesday 10 December 2014. Some 74 political parties have registered
for the general elections 2014.
For a small country like Mauritius with a population
of about 1,200,000, there are the two major political blocs who are engaging in
polemics everyday with their congresses in the several circumscriptions,
meetings, house-to-house visits etc. There is firstly the PTR/MMM Alliance, with the two
leaders Navin Ramgoolam and Paul Berenger and there is also the other political
bloc, MSM-PMSD-ML which call themselves “People’s Alliance” (Alliance
Lepep). The motto of the PTR/MMM Alliance is a united people,
a modern country and their aim is to make Mauritius a second republic, while
the legislative elections stand along the presidential one (a proposal
forwarded in the wake of a possible victory at the elections with at least
three-quarters of seats). Therefore, Paul Berenger shall be then the Prime
Minister for 5 years and Navin Ramgoolam shall be the president for 7 years. 
On
the other hand, the People’s Alliance is completely against making Mauritius a
second republic. According to their analysis, these two heads of the PTR-MMM
Alliance (Navin and Paul) are power-thirst and are primarily seeking their
personal interest instead of that of the people of Mauritius. They claim that
this new plan (the second republic) shall pave the way for more dictatorship
and they claim their own People’s Alliance is not at all like the adversary
alliance, saying that they have formed an alliance for the people and (are)
with the people. They further claim that they are not seeking power and that
they are here to care for the people.
Therefore the Mauritians – an intelligent people –
should bear in mind that Mauritius neither belongs to any political bloc nor to
the majority, in terms of religious communities. On Wednesday 10 December 2014,
each Mauritian shall have the opportunity to do a good clean up and remove all
those who are power-thirst, fraudsters, incompetent and those who are sucking
the blood of this nation in cups and thus reducing the Mauritians to a life of
misery. Verily, everything is becoming quite expensive. The cost of living is
high; price of all commodities have risen and there is no law and order as it
should have, and consequently, there are lots of crimes, thefts, rapes,
unemployment etc. There are a lot of graduates and professionals – doctors,
lawyers, are other professionals – who are jobless. Their families sacrificed a
lot to send them for further studies while others are amusing themselves with
state money.