A diabolical plan to denigrate the Assembly!
The opinion being expressed openly in the country is that the appointment on proportional basis of certain SPPF candidates to serve as members of the Assembly shows how unimportant the SPPF considers the Assembly to be. By selecting candidates with no relevant education, no experience and no recognized ability, except perhaps to call out bingo numbers, must be a terrible blow to many capable and seasoned senior party activists, who must be wondering why Albert Rene would impose such great incapacities on James Michel and the Government.It appears to be a devilish demonstration of power. It is very unlikely that the senior members of the SPPF do not appreciate this. Of course, some hypocrites will pretend that such appointments serve a useful purpose somehow, so that aging boss does not turn the stick on them.
It could be a diabolical plan to denigrate the Assembly which the Leader of Opposition and the experienced Opposition members consider to be an important venue to communicate useful ideas and proposals for the development of our nation. By placing someone with so little capacity to sit on the same level amongst them is a way to belittle them as well as the whole Assembly. The Bingo girl is not being sent there to debate any national matter, but to earn a salary, paid by government, to satisfy the boss and reduce the importance of the Legislative Branch of Government.
Are we to understand that because the people did not listen to the old “Tonton Makoute” he is now expressing his bitterness by throwing junk at us? Is this how an old politician should show his gratitude to the people who kept him up even after committing treason by overthrowing a legally elected government? Are those Assembly appointments some new form of coup d’état?
Anyway it would be interested to know the ‘reasons’ for such bizarre moves by those who particularly asked the people for a serious Assembly.
(Contributed by An Interested Seychellois)