The SPPF Trojan horse
The following is a quotation from the classics:
”Nought from the Greeks towards me hath sped well.
So now I find that ancient proverb true,
Foes’ gifts are no gifts: profit brings them none”
Sophocles (496 - 406 BC), in Ajax
Seychellois today face a similar “Trojan Horse” situation in the SPPF election platform. They are offering more of the same incompetence, corruption, victimization, lack of accountability, lack of responsibility, lack of consensus, lack of dialogue, lack of leadership, lack of planning, lack of reviewing – in all just plain empty words with no substance. This comes to light with the reason James Alix Michel is now giving for holding the election. His reason, one that is accepted by all the SPPF without question is ambiguity of the highest order. The President and his cohorts cannot count. They want to be re-elected because they cannot count. Mr. Michel is now saying that he will introduce a law to compel MNAs to work for their salaries, this is contained in their political rag the latest issue of ‘The People’. They had a majority already in the National Assembly he dissolved – why did President Michel not use this majority to introduce the law he is now so keen to push through the next National Assembly. In other words President Michel is putting the cart before the horse something his party is famously known for. The people must not forgive the SPPF for not having used the majority vote they previously had in the National Assembly wisely and to the benefit of the Seychellois nation. They are trying to buy time because time is not on their side. Things in Seychelles are going to get worse and these will happen before October 2007.
At the last National Assembly elections the SPPF were the winners because they had the majority. The basis of these elections is that they need a majority in the assembly. Therefore holding an election on this platform of needing a majority is a deception. Now saying that they need a majority to make things work is an admittance of not having worked in the now dissolved Assembly. When the SPPF had a majority in the Assembly nothing worked. What assurances can they now give that with a new majority they will work? The answer is simple – they had their chance and they blew it! Now it is time to give a chance to the SNP/DP alliance!