Ramgoolam Statements That Don't Survive A Fact-Check

1. Your shopping trolley was full when I was PM (2023 onwards). Depends for whom. Let's see what the data shows.

2. When we were in power we didn't allow pump prices to go as high as they did on world markets (2024). The APM indeed reduced the volatility in oil prices. But let's see what happened when they crashed during the Great Recession.

3. When SSR gave free (secondary) education (at least a million times since 2005). While SSR was the PM who made this announcement during the campaign for the general election of 1976, it was Kher Jagatsingh who suggested its insertion in the electoral manifesto and implemented it. KJ, a hardworker, had this to say about his stint at the Ministry of Education.

4. Every new born baby has Rs420,000 of debt on her head (2024). True but he's been saying that to imply that the current MSM government is ruining the country but he's not saying how much the debt has progressed on his watch as PM. Here's what we found for central government debt which is lower than total public debt number used above.

5. I made a mistake of helping Pravind Jugnauth get elected in riding No.8 (2024). That's true but he had little choice because Sithanen had messed up so badly that had he not done that he might have be booted out of power in 2010. And before making it easier for PJ to return to parliament he also gave a second presidential term to SAJ, PJ's father.

6. We got into this alliance (with the MMM, ReA and ND) because we want to save the country (2024). Nope. He did that because he was unable to get elected in the last two general elections even though he changed ridings in GE2019. And he's 77 while Paul Bérenger is 79. Subron has been trying to get into parliament for 41 years.

7. Our team is a mixture of experience and youth (2024). In March 2023 he said that he'd like a fourth term as PM because he wanted to leave a political legacy. This implies that he didn't have one after three terms as PM which means that his experience in running the country is worth nothing.

8. Signing the electoral agreement with ReA is historic (2024). It's rather a betrayal of what the Labour Party stands for including being against proportional representation.

9. My return to riding No. 5 is like Ram's return to Ayodhya (2024). Lord Ram didn't return to Ayodhya after losing general elections in Ayodhya and Lanka.

10. We managed the Great Recession well (2023). Ramgoolam said that IMF Boss Christine Lagarde asked him whether there was no recession in Mauritius during her 2012 visit, a period during which several countries were still feeling the effects of the Great Recession. Ms. Lagarde staying at a posh location and eating stuff like lobster thermidor and foie gras while getting a nice tan might have overlook the fact that not all Mauritians were laughing all the way to the bank especially after their long-term savings plans had been destroyed by a toxic bean-counter. 

We should note that points 1 and 2 above happened during that recession. Plus the economy had been so badly messed up that for the first time in the history of independent Mauritius an outgoing Finance Minister did not stand as a candidate. Five years later he lost after changing riding and in 2019 he lost again in a riding where he used to be very strong.

11. ReA is waging the same battle that the Labour Party fought in 1936 (2024). ReA want a dose of PR and have some very retrograde ideas. The LP has always been against PR and won two battles against it. The first one is in the 1956 Port-Louis by-election following the death of Guy Rozemont and the other one in the 1967 independence elections. We have a separate fact-check for the ReA guy.

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Analiz Vin Mezir Far Lalians Ptr/MMM

Demokrasi, meritokrasi ek Law & Order

1. En vre reform elektoral avek omwin 1/3 fam kom kandida dan eleksion zeneral. Vre reform la se sirtu sa mari kuyonad azut en doz PR dan nu system FPTP ki meyer sistem elektoral dan lemond pu ras en mari zarm depi dan lame ban elekter ki permet zot avoy ninport ki manb lasanble national dan karo kan dan en eleksion zeneral. Li pu osi permet ninport ki dirizan parti/minis fer mari dominer ek lepep e kone ki ena fort sans li revin dan parlman e mem kom minis pu kontinie kraz lepep.

2. Eleksion Prezidan par en kolez elektoral. Nu pa bizin sa la. Sirtu pu le moman. Nu ti truve ki AGF ti fer an 2018. Mazin u si li ti ena plis puvwar.

3. En lalwa anti-transfiz ek en pu Freedom of Information (FIA). En lalwa anti-transfiz pa bon ditu parski ban parti politik de fwa vin pagla. Dan sa ban ka la depite bizin servi so lespri ankor plis ki dabitid e pran desizion ki bizin. Par egzanp PMSD ti byin fer kit guvernman MSM an 2016 pu bar prosecution commission. Ena zafer pa kav opoze. Ptr pa ti promet FIA an 2005 ler Navin ti ena 58 an? Wi, get seksion 2.2.8 dan manifest elektoral 2005 Une île Maurice Pour Tous. E purtan Navin fin PM 9 banane a swiv apartir sa lane la. Asterla li ena preske 77.

4. Ranforsman indepandans DPP dan konstitision. Nu diman nu mem ki sa ve dir kan nu ti truv indepandans labank Moris atake ant 2007 ek 2014. E kot travay plizir minister ti paret ranplase ek tu kalite fon. Si met drwa revok depite poltisyin pu mazin de fwa avan fer kuyonad.

5. Constituional appointments committee. Ti fini dir sa dan 6 anagzman elektoral.

6. Amandman konstitisionel pu garanti eleksion minisipal e vilazwaz. Pa move. Me eski nu ankor bizin konsep minisipalite ek vilaz ubyin nu administre Moris kuma en sel vilaz/lavil?

7. Garantir indepandans MBC dan konstitision, aboli redevans Rs150 ek TV prive. Kisana ti fer li vin Rs150 pu nu get TV PyongYang? Ban radio deza ena zot Web TV.

8. Redon lapolis so prestiz ek so lindepandans e ranplasman NIU/SSS. Kuma pu fer sa? Met en gard sak interval lor si pa ki distans pu fer sayut PM. Sanzman non pa sanz fason opere.

Koripsion, ladrog ek organizasion lekurs

9. Ranplasman FCC par en zafer kuma serious fraud office angle. Ti ranplas ECO par ICAC non? Sa ti sanz kiksoz?

10. Ranplasman ADSU par en organizasion pliri-disipliner pu konbat trafik ek itilizasion ladrog. Ki lane kazino ti aparet dan tu kwin lari ek en minis de finans ti dir sa raport 1 milyar rupi an taks e li pa ti kone kot li pu gayn sa kalite kas la apre ki li ti bes corporate e income tax par 50%.

11. Relans lekurs, fer reviv San-de-Mars e reget Animal Welfare Act. Ti pu pli bon met en komision danket lor kuma nu pei fin glis ver en lanfer depi 2006.

Ekonomi, Zistis Sosial ek Lanvironman

Zistis sosial la se ranpli nu kadi sa non? Anu gete ki ti pe ariv ban kadi ant deziem e trwaziem manda Navin. 

12. Met fin a depresiasion rupi e ogmant pansion vieyes otan ki kapav. Pu ki rezon ti sakrifie Bheenick an 2014 ki fin en nu ban meyer guverner labank? Ki Ptr/MMM ti pe dir ankor lor met pansion Rs5,000 an 2014?

13. Revizion fiskalite lor prodwi petrolie pu bes zot pri e reorganizasion CEB pu bes pri kuran. Bes pri lesans/diezel la li ti en zot 6 angazman. Ase komik. Navin ti gard pri lesans mari elve malgre zot pri ti krash an 2008 akoz flat tax Sithanen ti fini kumans kraz lekonomi Moris e met nu pei lor en lapant pu tom dan en move presipis. Kuma nun fini dir si li bes ban pri la li pu fer li pu en kurt dire apre li pu remont li ankor plis ase vit. Konsernan pri elektrisite nu byin rapel ki Assirvaden ti dir lor ban randman ki ban IPP ti pe fer ek ban kontra CEB san pran oken risk. Navin ti osi dir an 2007 ki li ti pu sanz so non si ban pri kuran abizif la pa bese. Seki bizin se en bon komision danket pu konpran tu ban detay e ki manier fin siyn sa kalite kontra abizif IPP la e kisana ti PM ler fin siyn zot.

14. Bes pri medikaman a traver inportasion paralel e vawcher. Konpetision pa en move lide osi lontan pena kolizion. Me politik fiskal favorizan ban nanti e ban aktivite imobliye spekilatif telman toksik e pe dire depi telman lane (18) ki sitiasion pa pu ameliore avan kumans remet lord ladan.

15. Transpor ek internet gratis e remet system 3 kredit. Kuma pu finans sa ban kado la? Return ver 3 kredit la bon me pa fin ena gran refleksion e aksion dan domen ledikasion ler Navin ti PM pandan 3 manda.

16. Abolision taks pu tu se ki tus mwins ki 1 milyon rupi par lane, lor ban pansion e ban seki ena ant 18-28 an. Navin pena oken leritaz politik apre 3 manda prinsipalman akoz flat tax ki lin mete kumansman so deziem manda. E la li pe rod bes taks ankor. En guvernman bizin kas pu opere. Li kler li pa pe rod revini pu fer kiksoz de bon pu Moris. Sinon en milyarder ki ena ant 18-28 an pa bizin pey inkom taks?

17. Pu pey anrezistreman zis ler aste loto nef. En lot ti kado pu kuyon lepep. Komie kilomet tiyo perse so guvernman ti sanze sak lane li ti PM?

18. Reorganizasion erport. Ki vin a u lespri ler u tan Navin koz erport? Investisman masif dan lagrikiltir, lapes ek lelvaz. Kas pena ki investissant masif zot pu fer? Ki trak rekord Navin dan sa ban domen la pandan 14 an li ti PM?

19. Konze maternite 1 lane ek konze manstrwel pu madam. Bon, inpe lamod sa la. Plizir parti pe dir sa.

20. Ran piblik land drainage plan e rasionaliz konstriksion drin. Li bon ran sa rapor la piblik me li paret pe dir sa zis akoz guvernman panvi ran li piblik.

Subron Statements That Don't Survive A Fact-Check

1. We have reached the end of a cycle so we need a new constitution (2023 onwards). Bérenger and Ramgoolam have reached an advanced age and are way past the date they should have retired from active politics. Ramgoolam hasn't been looking healthy for quite some time – and he's been an unmitigated disaster as PM when he was – while Bérenger is seeing at least one ghost in Parliament. Subron is now a pensioner. Our constitution has not aged one bit though. It's still a national treasure that will serve us well for the next 100,000 years albeit with a few overdue additions. Subron seems to be confusing the cycles that a typical human goes through with our awesome constitution that was built to last many centuries. It's like the Hindu numerals, they have not gone out of fashion for the past 2,000 years. I don't know of anybody who wants their smartphone to run on Roman numerals.

2. Our FPTP system doesn't allow any new party to emerge (At least since 2010). 

Not only is this assertion not true but our FPTP system has also got rid of several parties over the past 65 or more years. And kept good-for-nothing loudmouths out of parliament forever.

3. Our constitution is a big pile of rot (2023 onwards). We have a constitution to die for. It is the result of decades-long struggle and deep study by several extraordinary people including Renganaden Seeneevassen and Kher Jagatsingh. The latter was also the one moving around the constitutional expert offered by India to help us to keep him under the radar. Our constitution has played an important role in proving Meade wrong and building our reputation as The Great Little Country. The rot we're seeing is not because of our excellent constitution which hasn't changed that much since 1968 but due to the unsustainable Sithanen flat tax implemented as from 2006. 

4. The BLS has institutionalised communalism (At least since 2011). At one point in our political history we decided to settle for it, I have understood, for a few general elections along with specially-delineated ridings because of the unwarranted fear spewed by a bunch of racists and possibly because of the failure of some politicians in understanding what is a good electoral system. It has served its purpose well without preventing voters from becoming increasingly sophisticated election after election and changing governments several times. Any dose of PR would have been disastrous for Mauritius compared to the outcomes we've experienced with the BLS including communally. There's nothing more communal than adding a dose of PR. We can listen to Justin Trudeau on why he's against adding any form of PR to Canada's excellent FPTP electoral system. And we don't need a dose of PR to remove the BLS as I've demonstrated since 2014.

5. It is not because our constitution has worked that we should keep it (2023 onwards). So what do we do, we get rid of things that have worked very well like our FPTP system and our constitution and keep those that have failed spectacularly like the flat tax and concreting agricultural land while Mauritians starve?

6. Only 20 PR MPs are needed for an electoral reform (2014 onwards). Our parliament is already too big. We have many MPs that don't have any track record. Why would we need 20 PR MPs after each general election when the results have varied significantly from 60-0 to 32-30. It doesn't make any sense. Plus this would throw governance out of the window. 

7. We should add the names of Anna van Bengale and Anjalay Coopen in our constitution (As from 2023). Clearly Mr. Subron doesn't understand the difference between a constitution and history books. What's next, adding an old picture of his as a brand ambassador wannabe of a famous South-American doctor or holding a torch in Hendrik Fort?

8. I'm against the costing of electoral pledges (2023). The Sithanen flat tax of 15% has ruined Mauritius and now Ramgoolam wants 18-28 year-olds not to pay any income tax. Is this why Subron wants to join the LP/MMM/PMSD alliance? Should we also remove speedometers from cars and planes?

9. So where's the problem if sugar represents only 1% of GDP? (2012). That was his reply when I told him that it's way better for Mauritius to remove sugar cane, recycle workers from this industry and use the land for economic activities that are more commensurate with the cost of living here and aspirations of Mauritians.

 

10. A red line was crossed with the killing of Kistnen (2023). There have been a number of unsolved murders during the past 25 years and it is urgent and important that everything is done so that the affected families get closure, justice is served and Mauritians find out the truth. But how is that exactly the fault of our excellent constitution and the best electoral system in the world that is embedded in it? 

11. It's not good that a party heads government for three consecutive terms (2024). It's something for voters and not Subron to decide. SAJ did four consecutive terms as PM between 1982 and 1995 (the first one, only 436 days long, was marred by in-fighting almost from day 1).

12. I'm against double candidacies (2012). Have a look at what is in ReA's 2014 electoral manifesto.

13. BLD (2020).

14. The MSM suffers from a democratic deficit (2024). While it's true that 62% didn't vote for the MSM-led alliance in 2019 we have to remember that our excellent FPTP electoral system doesn't put that much store by the vote share at the national level but rather focuses on each candidate's vote count at the constituency level and the party who has the most elected candidates forms government. Which puts pressure on party leaderships to field good candidates everywhere and avoid duds and other controversial candidates. For instance Rama Sithanen was sidelined in 2010 after he killed our savings culture, created structural problems and a massive amount of poverty while Showkutally Soodhun was not given a ticket in 2019 after he said that he would have shot XLD in parliament if his bodyguard had given him his revolver. Furthermore 67% and 79% didn't vote for the Labour Party and the MMM so should we also say that these opposition parties have a greater democratic deficit?

15. Alone ReA cannot win 3/4 of the seats [in the forthcoming general election.] (2024). This is a funny statement from a party that has fielded a total of 31 candidates in two general elections (2005 and 2014) and is yet to have its first candidate get its electoral deposit back (you need to score at least 10% for this to happen). Is there a pinch of megalomania at work here?

Sis Kolos Travayis Ki Pa Ti Pu Vot Pu Navin

Maurice Curé. Listwar Parti Travayis (Ptr) kumans ar li. En lorea kin al apran medsin langleter, kin develop en bon klientel parmi ban nanti kan lin returne an 1913 me ki pa ti ditu kontan, Selvon ek Teelock rakont nu, kot so pei ti ete. Li ti ena osi ban klian dan vilaz e sa fer li trakase move kalite pu lasante travayer ler li truv zot leta. An 1934 li dan Konsey Guvernmantal kot pu so promie diskur li deman reprezantasion travayer dan sa konsey la e rekonesans muvman sindikal. Sitiasion telman dan dife ki sis mwa pa gayn letan pase e ala li pe fer ban nuvo revandikasion: pansion vieyes e ameliorasion kondision ban travayer lindistri sikriyer. 

Lagazet tret li de kominist e li perdi dan eleksion Zanvie 1936. Me li pa dekuraze u perdi letan. Mwa swivan, 88 banane zordi, le 23 Fevriye 1936 li organiz en miting dan San de Mars ansam ek Moutou, Sahadeo ek ankor pu fond pli gran parti dan listwar Moris. Ban miting e rasanbleman Ptr se ban seans pu edik ban gro laful dimun vit lor ban zafer estra inportan pu zot byinet e pu kre en vag progresis. Curé viktim telman represion ki li fayit e demisione depi Ptr an 1941. En lot kolos lamem pu pran labar.

Emmanuel Anquetil. En marin kin pas buku letan an Ostrali ek Langleter e kin konpran kuma sindikalism se en zarm pwisan ti en kolaborater Curé apre so retur Moris. Emmanuel usi ti truv ban kondision ban travayer telman dan bez ki lin servi so gran intelizans e so ban talan pu zot sor ameliore. Ban otorite kolonial ti pe per so ban kapasite organiz dimun alor zot fin deport li Rodrigues an 1938. Me lin revini ase vit e fin kontinie organiz dimun rapidman. Lin bril so lavi pu avansman so ban konpatriot. Mersi Emmanuel pu sa zoli fedartifis la. Anu dekuver kuma nu trwaziem kolos fin tini guvernay Ptr.

Guy Rozemont. Nu rapel sa Lider Parti Travayis la pu so mosion fer Promie Me vin en konze piblik pu selebre dinite ban travayer e rekonet zot gran rol dan kreasion larises dan Moris. Me Guy fin fer plin lezot zafer osi sinon pli inportan. Lin konbat pu amelior kondision ban travayer inklian don zot drwa de vot e elir zot ban reprezantan dan konsey lezislatif. Pa difisil konpran kifer travayer ti pe anvi gayn ban dimun ki pu fer kiksoz de fondamantal laba e amen developman konstitisionel ki bon pu zot e sitwayin an zeneral – se pa selman akoz ban kondision ki ti dan dife e ki ti fer krim kont limanite lor later Moris me se osi prinsip de baz amelior ban zafer tan ki ena lavi. 

Seski nu lir usi pli u mwin dan Petals of Dust. Bi mosion Guy an Desam 1953 se byinsir transfer inpe puvwar Guverner a ban reprezantan popilasion. Apre se en memorandum ki zot avoy Lord Munster. Ban diskision kontinie dan Lond ek Moris ziska ki Sekreter Deta pu ban Koloni Lennox-Boyd pibliye so ban propozision. Li rekoman PR (Proportional Representation) pu anpes en swadizan dominasion Indu me sa Ptr absoliman e avek rezon pa dakor. 

Chit Dukhira dan so liv Experiments in Democracy rapel nu ki Komite Egzekitif Ptr preside par Guy ti ekspilse so frer Philippe Rozemont apre ki li ti vot an faver sa propozision PR la. En tigit letan apre Guy desede e ena en eleksion parsiel dan Porlwi kot ban minorite an mazorite. En zoli plas pu nu zwen nu katriem kolos.

Renganaden Seeneevassen. Pa pran buku letan pu konpran ki li ti en dimun mari inportan pu Ptr e donk pu Moris. Pli tar mon lir Renga Is No More e sa fin fer mwa kon li plis. Sada Reddi rakont nu dan biografi Ringadoo ki Renga ek Edgar Millien ti ban prinsipal portparol dan muvman anti-PR ki Ptr ti lanse. E ki Renga ti kapitaliz lor so ban talan ansyin profeser pu explik en lodians dan Teat Porlwi lor tablo ek lakre ki ban implikasion PR. Mauritius Times li, ti lans so fame kanpayn Down With PR. Ptr fini par ranport sa parsiel Me 1956 la dan en landrwa, kot li bon rapel, minorite an mazorite e trwa mwa apre zot pran minisipalite Porlwi pu promie fwa. Sa ban viktwar la anter PR pur de bon e nu evantielman gayn FPTP (First-Past-The-Post) ki meyer system elektoral dan lemond. Zot fin pare pu sinkiem kolos?

Anekdot Guy Forget dan so obitier pu Renga dan Mauritius
Times lor en dezene organize par Lennox-Boyd an 1955.

Seewoosagur Ramgoolam. Pli gran PM ki Moris fin gayne. Malgre en lanfans byin difisil kot li ti perdi en lizie dan en fason dramatik. Lin persevere e lin transform li an en gran lider ki ti osi byin rize. En so ban pli gran realizasion se ban gran lekip dimun ki lin met dibut pu amen lindepandans, relev ban defi kaziman insirmontab ki pei ti pe fer fas an 1968 e develop Moris den fason estraordiner. Se en dimun ki ti konpran ki diob pli inportan en lider se rekritman talan. Anu zwen en so ban meyer rekritman e nu siziem kolos.

Kher Jagatsingh. Idol SSR, en fonksyoner kin kit servis sivil pu al ko-fond Mauritius Times laz 23 an. Depite avan li gayn 28 an, Sekreter Zeneral Ptr a 30 pu 21 an e Minis Lasante a 36, Minis Planing Ekonomik e Developman a 40. Politisyin dan Moris kin probableman plis voyaze e ti kon plis dimun inportan dan lemond. Buku dimun dan diferan parti dir se en ban politisyin kin fer plis pu Moris. Sirman akoz li en ban prinsipal arsitek nu leta providans. An 1956 li ti osi partisip dan kanpayn anti-PR. 

Kuma Ban Kolos Ti Pu Truv Performans Navin

Si zot ti la zordi le 23 Fevriye 2024 dan meyer form zot lavi pu manz en bon but gato laniverser zot parti zot ti pu kontan truve ki FPTP tuzur meyer system elektoral dan lemond kin servi buku pei i konpri Moris mari byin. Zot ti pu sirman dir sa tigit dimun ki pankor konvinki ki depi Zanvie 2015 nun al vote dan eleksion zeneral 1 sel fwa alor ki Israel kot ena PR in al vote 6 fwa akoz instabilite perpetiel ki PR suvan zenere eleksion apre eleksion u Belzik ki usi servi PR ti pran 541 zur pu form en guvernman an 2011. Renga ek Kher ti pu mari kontan ki elekter Morisyin ti rezet PR en deziem fwa an 2014. Me ena buku zafer ki pa ti pu fer zot plezir e en bon parti ladan fin arive akoz Navin.

Zot ti pu sirman vot Ptr an 1995 e kontan retruv en PM ruz. Me zot ti pu sirman ena rezerv lor sertin kandida ki Navin ti swazir e vit truv so performans mari mediok. Tro buku rise puse steril san nanye arive. Zot ti pu soke ek seki li ti pe rod fer ek CWA e zot probableman pa ti pu inpresionie par fason kanpayn elektoral ki zot parti ti fer an 2000. Sandut zot ti pu rod konsey li me se pa sir ki li ti pu ekute. Parksi zot aksion pase byin dokumante donk si li ti anvi kontinie ek direksion ek nivo zot travay li pa ti pu inposib. 

Zot ti pu revot li an 2005 me zot pa ti pu dakor ek en flat tax 15% pu plizir rezon evidan ek ban katastrof ki ti pe arive en deryer lot. Takse lintere e elimin ban egzanpsion kin tuy nu kiltir epargn, don kado 5 milyar rupi en lindistri kin mor depi lontan, siyn ban kontra abizif, zwe rulet ris ek sibsid SC/HSC, tir sibsid lor diri/lafarin pu ban rezon konpletman debil, ras dipin dan labus zanfan lekol e fer pri later determine par milioner etranze. Zot ti pu truv sa propagand ki MBC ti pe fer la infekt. SSR pa ti pu dakor ki atribie li tu zafer ki Ptr in fer. Renga posibleman ti pu rant en kes pu tialenj flat tax 15% la parksi nu ti pe pas de demokrasi a plutokrasi. Emmanuel, Guy e Maurice ti pu bros latet Navin e si li pa ti konpran mem zot ti pu lev pei kont li sirtu pu so ban lalwa travay. Par kont zot ti pu siport Bheenick pu so ekselan travay labank Moris.

Pa sir zot ti pu vot Navin an 2010. Pa ti pu drol si zot ti pu organiz so depar depi Ptr. Zot ti pu definitivman pa vot pu li an 2014 e an 2019. Ferm parlman pandan 9 mwa pu pon en papier lor reform elektoral ki preske en frer zimo propozision toksik Sithanen pa ti pu fer zot kontan ditu. Azut en doz PR dan nu system elektoral 58 an apre ki zot ti anter li dan Porlwi? Tu lezo dan zot lekor ti pu kont sa. Desizion Navin redon Sithanen de tiket apre se ki lin fer ant 2005 ek 2010 ti pu fer zot mari araze e pa drol si zot ti pu fer kanpayn kont li.

Eski zot ti pu vot pu Navin an 2024? Pena sime. E sirtu pa kan zot ti pu konpran kot Moris pu ete lafin lane (get tiart) e analiz ban angazman Ptr/MMM/PMSD. Zot ti pu dakor ar li ler li dir ki li pena oken leritaz politik apre 3 manda kom PM. Sa zot ti pu fini warn li depi 2005 mem ki sa pu arive ler zot get sa direksion ki li ti pran la. Zot pa ti pu vot Pravind non pli parski lin pli u mwin kontinie anfons Moris dan presipis. U Paul ki ti bizin fini kit MMM depi byin lontan parski li penan nanye de bon pu ofer Moris. Zot ti pu sandut truv sertin ban propozision Reform Party kuma drwa revok en depite e zir en afidavit pu ban angazman interesan.

Rezon prinsipal kifer det fin depas 500 milyar rupi e sitiasion pe kontinie puri de manier
eksponansiel se en striktir taksasion insutenab kin kumanse ek flat tax 15% Sithanen.

Referans

Dukhira, C., (2002), History of Mauritius. Experiments in Democracy.

Forget, G., (1958), Ce que fut l'homme. mauritiustimes.com. Aksede 15.2.24.

Jagatsingh, K., (1981), Petals of Dust.

Reddi, S.J., (2000), Sir V. Ringadoo, An Opportunity to Serve, Mahatma Gandhi Institute.

Selvon, S., (2018), A New Comprehensive History of Mauritius, Editions de l'Ocean Indien.

Teelock, V., (2009) Mauritian History. From its Beginnings to Modern Times. Mahatma Gandhi Institute.

Analiz Sis Angazman Lalians Ptr/MMM/PMSD

1. Pu redon parlman so let dor. Phokeer se pa Vaghjee me lor sa 35 ekspilsion an 2023 la ena plizir ladan kot lopozision fin rod sikan (e komie ladan inplik en tekewe?). Anu pa bliye usi ki Navin ti ferm parlman pandan 9 mwa pu prodir en dokiman lor reform elektoral kot li ti fer ban rekomandasion konpletman debil. Bon sa pa eton nu ler nu kon nivo Ramgoolam.

2. Abolision FCC. Ranplase par ki zafer? Manier sitiasion pu kontinie deteriore akoz politik fiskal e ekonomik pagla ki Ramgoolam ti kumanse an 2006 ban guvernman ki pu vini pu met tu kalite lalwa libertisid ziska sa eklat dan zot figir evantielman.

3. Constitutional appointment authority. Depi lindepandans nun oper plito byin apart kelke ka ase toxik. Donk pa en bel zafer. Se sirtu akoz 2-3 politisyin ki nu retruv nu dan sa sitiasion la. Ramgoolam in poz 7 fwa ek en tiket zis akoz lin don limem sa ban tiket la. Ek eleksion rekorl zot pu tike avan fer kuyonad.

4. Ogmantasion pansion lao Rs13,500. Nu nek ena get refleksion Ptr/MMM lor pansion an 2014 pu konpran ki se an angazman konpletman dezespere. Navin pu gayn 77 an e Paul 79 byinto. Navin dan karo kan depi 9 an e Bérenger pe perdi tu eleksion zeneral depi 2000.

5. Eliminasion income tax pu ban seki ena 18-28 an. Pei deza pena kas pu fonksion kuma bizin depi 2005 asterla pwal fer en parti dimun pa pey income tax? Se totalman iresponsab. Akoz lin met taksasion lor en trazektwar insutenab ki Ramgoolam so bilan mari katastrofik. Se en angazman toxik parski ek sa nu pu truv zot pe depresie rupi ubyin redwir leta providans e pa regle oken problem pei. Se en angazman ban inkapab.

6. Zot pu bes pri prodwi petrolie de manier sibstansiel. Kav me selman pu en ti lepok. Lerla zot pu remont li buku plis ankor amwin rekumans ras dipin dan labus zanfan lekol, takse lintere, NRPT e bondie kone ki lezot politik vanpir ankor. Sitiasion telman pe puri depi 2006 ki ler pri petrol ti efondre an 2008 pri laponp pa ti bes kuma bizin. Asterla an 2024 zafer buku pli pa bon donk pri laponp pa pu rekonekte ek so nivo mondial. 

Konklizion: Lalians Ptr/MMM/PMSD breyn-ded. 

General Secretaries of the Labour Party

When Kalyanee Juggoo resigned as General Secretary (GS) of the Labour Party recently Arvin Boolell wondered whether with her 13 years in that post she hadn't been the longest-serving. I knew she did not. Indeed as Chart 1 shows, Kher Jagatsingh had been GS between 1961 and 1982 or for around 21 years. Furthermore, a quick Google search revealed that Kalyanee had served since 2013 so that she had been in that position for about 9 years.  

Chart 1. Kalyanee cannot be the longest-serving GS.

 

But given that the greatest party of the land is also at 86 years the oldest it is possible that there had been at least one GS that was there for a longer period than Kher in the two large red boxes with question marks. However some more search, see Chart 2, ruled out anybody serving longer than Kher – I cannot use KJ here for an obvious reason – after his stint because there have been quite a few between him and Kalyanee in that post for shorter a period than the latter except maybe Joseph Tsang Mang Kin whose Wikipedia entry gives contradictory information and explains the absence of his name in the charts. 

Chart 2. No one served longer than Kher after him.

But Kher might still not be the longest-serving GS because although it was a wonderful blessing for the LP that he got the job for its Silver Jubilee there are still these 25 years. All it would take for him to keep the first spot would be for the second GS to have been appointed in the WWII year of 1941. This of course assumes that the post existed at that time. Maybe it did. Maybe it didn't. It shouldn't be too difficult to find out. 

Kher Jagatsingh organised the Labour Party like clockwork.

Of course what matters most is not staying in a post for the longest time but having the greatest impact. And when it comes to impact we have to remember that it is widely acknowledged that Mr. Jagatsingh has left oversized shoes in each one of the Ministries that he was appointed to despite not having been there the longest in at least one of them. We should also note that Ms. Juggoo is the only woman so far in this tally and as of now the second longest-serving GS of the LP.