Africa-Press – Mauritius. There is a vagueness with regard to the balance of power that currently prevails on the political level, especially since the show of force of the new alliance bringing together the PTr, the MMM and the PMSD in Mare d’Albert and Vacoas, and those of the governmental alliance with the young and the elderly. Do you think that the government alliance remains at this stage as the first political force in the country?
Yvan Martial: We cannot compare a show of force, which remains to be evaluated, measured, weighed, and a government firmly in place since 2014, capable at any time of rounding up significant crowds of different categories, depending on the targets targeted (young , women, crumbling, sick, sportsmen, cooperators, planted planters, poor fishermen who are told that their offspring should not be fisherman like mom or dad) to say nothing of the boutte rodères abounding in such circumstances.
The opposition, especially parliamentarians, cannot complain about such ministerial power because its members have, at various times, held this power in their hands without knowing how to use it in such an optimal way.
Value of the day, it is necessary to know if the whole population buys these eternal speeches on the theme that Pravind does not do what Navin did when they were inseparable between a by-election in No. 8 and their departure from the Ramgoolam government (after the revelation of some unflattering details of the government purchase of the MedPoint clinic).
Opponents of all persuasions, knowing that there are as many sides as opponents, must listen to what Mauritians can blame the present government for and make the most of these grievances, hoping that this will lead a little water in their mill before the inevitable dissolution of the National Assembly acclaimed on November 7, 2019.
* Do you see the PTr-MMM-PMSD alliance eventually gaining the upper hand over the government alliance by relying on the strength of its composition and its various members, on its capital of credibility and on the hope that it arouses both with its various ‘vote banks’ and abstentionists who number around 25% of the electorate?
It is a Herculean task. But Hercules is not willing, even if the stables of Augeas need to be drained as much as what is happening now on the Champ-de-Mars racecourse. The game is all the more difficult because the MSM has not yet used its last and perhaps its best cartridges.
But whose fault is it, if not those who are waiting for 2023 to finally do what should have been done in 2020, Covid-19 or not? The confinement, de rigueur then, hardly prevented useful coze-cozé beyond a bamboo hedge.
Lost time is paid for “cash” also in the political and electoral world. The role of the opponents is above all to listen to the small miseries of the general public as well as its great complaint and also those of the ti-dimounn, and let us know.
But how can we repair today what we neglected to do between 2020 and 2023? * Jocelyn Chan Low, historian, went very far in his analysis of the balance of power on the political spectrum in an interview with the Mauritius Times last Friday.
He claims that “for the opposition, there is no other solution than the withdrawal of (its) leaders in favor of a new leadership – the victory of the opposition would be guaranteed”.
He probably says it in good faith with a view to eventually seeing the victory of a more acceptable alternation, but it is not necessarily achievable, right?
Jocelyn Chan Low uses an abstract expression which, in my humble opinion, means nothing. Rather than talking about the “new management”, I would have preferred that he used the term “new director”.
It’s still more concrete. And to make it more real, it suffices to designate by name the identity of this “spare director” whom he claims to be salvific. So we could have judged on the spot and whether this spare wheel outweighs the old worn, if not flat, tires he wants to get rid of.
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