Democracy is marketed as the ability of the people to have power in their hands. But what is it actually?
Every 5 years, for 5 minutes, you have the right or power to put 3 crosses on a sheet of paper next to your favorite candidates.
5 Years contain approximately 2,592,000 minutes.
The rest of the 2591995 minutes, it is a dictatorship. Our hands get tied up. Our mouths gets taped. Sticks are put in our wheels. Literally.
Employees and students wait for the Prime Minister’s and the President’s car to go before to be able to reach their office and schools.
- Did the people want the Mauritian beaches to be sold to hotels and restaurants?
- Did the people want speed cameras? Or roads which are safe, fast and efficient?
- Did the people want Rs 50 million crappy gov.mu website?
- Did the people want frauds? If you’re a ‘petit copain’, then yes
- Did the people want the Government to store their fingerprints and bio-metric photos?
- Did the people want a Rs 2 billion prison facilities?
- Did the people want to increase the bus fares when it was already high? 1,2
But now, something bigger is going to happen. We won’t even have that 5 mins. The current PM wants a permanent seat on power by planning to become President. The opposition joined the government. What do we have now?
Can we choose who we want to be our dictator? Or can we choose our supreme dictator?