Africa-Press – Mauritius. The parliamentary opposition parties seem very good at discrediting themselves with the electorate: they never miss the opportunity to demonstrate this to us.
The latest episode: the inability to organize a joint meeting for the May Day celebrations. This joint meeting had been announced with enthusiasm during the various press conferences held by the three parties in recent weeks. This had also had the merit of raising the mayonnaise and mobilizing supporters. But everything fell apart overnight.
The official reason is that the MSM has put the spokes in the wheels of the PTr, the MMM and the PMSD as to the possibility of holding their meeting in Vacoas – Vacoas has apparently become the only place in Mauritius where one can organize rallies policies.
The unofficial reason was quick to leak to the media: difficulties in finalizing the composition of the frontbench and the allocation of the various ministries. This did not fail to make Mauritians react on social networks, the tone generally going towards indignation.
Moreover, the sociologist and commentator Malenn Oodiah did not go out of his way on his Facebook page by accusing the opposition parties of being “simply pitiful”. In fact, he is right.
The spectacle of an opposition unable to bring itself up to the level of current issues and completely myopic to social and economic reality would constitute the material for a comedy by Molière if the situation were not so tragic.
This spectacle of an opposition suffering from weakness, on their knees, without idea, without energy, and without audacity necessarily calls us to ask ourselves the following question: what are they playing at?
Mauritian realpolitik is such that any pragmatic observer knows that until an alliance is concluded and becomes official, all possibilities remain open.
. Including the possibility for certain elements among these three parties to take a step towards the MSM.
It will be necessary to observe how the discussions of alliances will evolve which would have been resumed, according to Paul Bérenger, but it must be admitted that there are no longer many people who believe in an alliance capable of achieving the two objectives which were set.
at the start: winning the next elections and pushing a program of far-reaching reforms for the country. May Day: a politicized celebration What is certain is that the ‘spin’ that the opposition parties are attempting – by claiming that May Day is only a union and not a political celebration – is just as ridiculous as the volte-face that they just inflicted on Mauritians.
May Day has always been a politicized celebration due to the intimate link between trade union struggles, workers’ rights and socio-economic policies.
. After all, until proven otherwise, there is always the word “Labour” in “Parti Labour”.
Divorcing politicians and trade unions on such a symbolic day is an extremely worrying sign of what the political reality of the country has become: it is evidence that the organic link between class struggle and politics is broken, even that it is not no longer exists.
It is testimony to an ideological crisis so deep that the only option opposition parties have when discussing an alliance is to fight over the number of tickets and the composition of the ‘ frontbench’. Like what, there is no coincidence. . .
Thus Mauritius is sinking deeper and deeper into a political crisis that is likely to last, unless other parties are able to occupy the space left empty by the ideological and political disengagement of the traditional parties.
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