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| | Par:- Nazim Esoof
On 02/06/2009 |
Le Premier ministre le martèle depuis plusieurs mois: sa priorité, c’est l’économie. En fait, avec la crise, Navin Ramgoolam trouve l’occasion de faire sa mue en homme d’Etat. C’est le paradoxe de la crise. Ce sont les politiques qui parviennent le mieux à créer l’impression d’être un chef qui bénéficient politiquement de cette crise économique mondiale.
C’est le sens qu’on peut donner à la posture de Navin Ramgoolam actuellement. D’où certaines prises de position radicales sur des dossiers sensibles. Comme l’incinérateur de la Chaumière. D’où les louanges qu’il se chante en tant que «capitaine» qui mènera le navire à bon port malgré une mer houleuse.
Certes, les effets de la crise poussent un certain nombre de citoyens à reporter leurs malheurs sur la mauvaise gestion du gouvernement. Mais, à ce chapitre, c’est surtout le ministre des Finances, Rama Sithanen, qui est posé en victime expiatoire. Navin Ramgoolam en fait les frais également, mais à un moindre degré. Sa popularité prend des coups. Cependant, parallèlement, sa stature de Premier ministre est rehaussée. D’autant plus qu’il profite de la division qui règne au sein de l’opposition.
Quoi qu’il advienne, il pourra toujours dire qu’il était là en période de crise et qu’il n’a pas fui ses responsabilités.
Avec cette crise, il a surtout l’opportunité de se débarrasser d’un grand défaut, de cette perception qu’il est un indécis, un homme incapable d’agir dans l’instant. Jusqu’ici, il s’en sort pas mal. Mais il a encore des prouesses à faire.
A terme, seule l’opinion publique pourra le juger. A-t-il tiré profité de la crise politiquement? Ou a-t-il échoué?
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| pabadiner | | | Navin ek so lekip alliance zot couma coq pe chanter so lapatte dans malpropter lepep applaudis enfin pas tout ziste ceux qui li fine change zot lavie nous conne ki sanela ki dans bien ... mais zot pas trouver ki pe vini divant ....attention danger!! | | | Girish | | | Helo mates!!..its gud that everyone is making part of their views. The press always need smefin to make sensation among the population. Well i believe that nobody is above criticism and judgment and if we are realli concerned about the development of Mauritius its high time for the press to invite industry professionals as well as members of the parliament to discuss about potential solutions that can improve the future of our country. Instead of the press criticizing the government on every occassion i think it would be gud for them to make radio programmes to discuss the situation in our country by providing concrete plans and objectives and the requirements that needs to be fullfilled for the objectives to be achieved. Stop criticism when you are unable to provide solutions mates!!.
everyone must work towards the progress of our island irrespective to which political group he/she belongs to!!!. assez sa ban zafer critiques poo narien la!!!. kan 1 dimoon pa 1 professionel dan so domaine tout le temps li cachiete deyers religion!!..assez sa ban views la. | | | REDBRIDGE | | | The idea of a ‘national government
WORLD financial crisis- Are we witnessing the emergence of a new breed of politicians who are focused on good governance and development instead of hate, divisiveness and rabble rousing?
In Mauritius how is public opinion faring with regard to the way the political groups are responding to the dire world economic melt down. The Budget 2009 illustrates some defining stands from quarters that stated the critical times we are living through, urging more togetherness for thinking about the solutions to alleviate the pains and fears like losing jobs, falling standard of living, and high risks levels in every sphere.
It is commendable that there be such mobilising of all minds, thus joining those that say the time is not for petty politics and cheap gains. The private sector has in most part taken substantial move as to adapt to the exigencies of the present difficult times. As example the 25% pay cut for higher management personnel, and other attempts to limit the benefits that usually go along with job offers –these are frequently being talked as to create greater awareness.
India is a case in point to show that new pattern is emerging on the political scene. A hard fought election has ended; a new Government led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is in place. Even as the BJP still emerges as the main opposition party of India, its traditional brand of politics stands rejected by the electorate. The number of MPs that the party managed to bring into Parliament has primarily come from states where its leaders have achieved development and growth. That the Congress beat it decisively was because that party presented a new breed of politicians like Rahul Gandhi, who concentrated on good governance and development. The BJP now faces a dilemma. Apart from being a party led by leaders who should have retired long ago, its appeal based on Hindutva and divisiveness stands rejected by the electorate. Where does the party go from here? Where is its second line of leadership? The party seems to be waiting for the RSS to provide answers for all this.
The Nehru-Gandhi family that has succeeded in retaining its leadership role in the Congress has a special place in the hearts of India’s poor. Coming from a wealthy background, Moti Lal Nehru gave his all at the call of Mahatma Gandhi. Jawaharlal Nehru started his work in the party as a Sewa Dal worker. Rahul Gandhi has been spending a lot of his time in the villages and even staying with the poor to find out what has gone wrong that in the sixty- odd years of freedom its fruits have not reached the poor.
India’s poor have seen how the Manmohan Singh-led UPA Government tried to implement its promises. Schemes like the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and the waiver of farmer loans have lifted the spirit and pride of the rural countryside. These schemes are not a dole like England’s unemployment benefit, but wages for employment. They have enabled the poor to retain their pride. The closely monitored schemes have paid rich dividends to the Congress Party and protected rural India from the vagaries of the market economy. The Left, led by the CPI-M , has miscalculated. At a time and moment when their support to the Manmohan Singh had come to be recognised, they withdrew it and committed a double whammy by opposing the nuclear deal. They were dealt a sound drubbing by the electorate.he youth of India, proud of the country’s history, are looking forward.
They want to see the nation marching abreast with the rest of the developed world. They are a part of a fast emerging global culture. Thus, when obscurantist organisations show off their brand what they claim ‘Indian culture’, the BJP had to suffer the backlash . If the BJP has to woo the youth of India, the party would need to define very clearly its relationship with such outfits.
The simple fact is that the youth of India are easily able to identify themselves with young leaders like Rahul , Priyanka, Sachin Pilot and Scindia. There is no one that the BJP can produce to rival their image. The BJP youth wing is defunct and now it seems the ABVP (Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad) is not even an adjunct of the BJP.
They want to see the nation marching abreast with the rest of the developed world. They are a part of a fast emerging global culture. Thus, when obscurantist organisations show off their brand what they claim ‘Indian culture’, the BJP had to suffer the backlash. If the BJP has to woo the youth of India, the party would need to define very clearly its relationship with outfits.
The simple fact is that the youth of India are easily able to identify themselves with young leaders like Rahul , Priyanka, Sachin Pilot and Scindia. There is no one that the BJP can produce to rival their image.
The Mauritius political groups should learn from India- Paul Berenger made a momentous move to lead his party through the next general election, and like osmosis the idea will gain momentum and hold firm.
The Prime Minister Dr. Ramgoolam talked extensively, through the National Television Corporation on the Budget 2009. The modes of reaching the minds of the citizens become most effective when all levels in society get involve in the process. The communication channel is wide and far reaching, one core factor is should the broadcast been simultaneously translated into the common people language.
It is seen as a failure that the Budget 2009 in Mauritius been handled like a lounge tea coffee meeting. Even at this time and special context, the old reflexes been much on display, there ought to have been coming from the social alliance the will to gather the most greater number of stakeholders to meet the challenges head on. Whatever be the amount of time and days spent by the prime minister and the finance minister to thrash out an 18 months economic programme, the sense of alienation and remoteness of people’s concerns remains. They are right when they spell out that the non visibility of the world economic crisis , that in itself should have been the motivating force to call for a rally of everyone , including the opposition parties.
British capitalism is amongst the most exposed to the crisis, almost on a level now with the situation opening up in southern Europe. The Brown government hangs by a thread and could collapse at any moment. The perspective of Brown is undoubtedly to try and ‘manufacture’ a short-term ‘boom’, particularly through quantitative easing, and hope that this coalesces with Obama’s measures to give him the possibility of a fourth New Labour term of government. If David Cameron and the Tories came to power, however, the scenario that would open up in Britain would be similar to that which confronts the Sarkozy government in France at the present time. Because of this the idea of a ‘national government’, a coalition, has been floated. It cannot be ruled out that there will be a ‘hung parliament’ with no party having a clear majority after the next election.
The development of new mass workers’ parties is still crucial for Europe and, for that matter, on a world scale. It is not necessary to elaborate out once more here the reasons for this.
| | | WIMBLEDON | | | Comment Ramgoolam profite de la crise !
Ce sont les politiques qui parviennent le mieux à créer l’impression d’être un chef qui bénéficient politiquement de cette crise économique mondiale.
Well, that depends on the country. Prime minister budget intervention looks like a sermon. He had the legislative assembly, the national television Corporation and radio, and the citizens all glued to his words. Once the novelty wears off though, like this morning new higher prices for fuel, the feeling that the squeeze and fall in the standard of living continues unabated.
The light at the end of the tunnel effect is simply not on for the huge number of people. There was a sense of urgency to listen to Dr. Ramgoolam , for as captain on board , the people wanted some reassurances that their daily plight is well understood by the highest office bearer in the country. Somehow the mood of disappointment is growing more profoundly, not that the financial crisis and its consequences are not comprehend , but that the task of presenting the budget been handled by the finance minister whose priority is perceptive to be exclusively for some few.
Dr. Ramgoolam made a repetition of his earlier act when he poured praises on sithanen for handling the budget report. His share in that operation was, as he put it, to been spending long daily hours together with the finance minister, and negotiating on priority issues. Delegating the budget exercise in normal economic situation look acceptable, but Ramgoolam drove the message of the cataclysmic time we are living. The people mind keep asking whether the budget could have been handled in a collective ministerial level, and even bringing in other stakeholders, be it the opposition parties for that matter.
What a waste of opportunity to go it alone in that budget 2009 exercise. Ramgoolam took all manner of dexterity to suggest that foreign top economist and experts went wrong in their assessments of the world financial crisis. We cannot be “more royaliste que le roi”. So the complacency and dire stubbornness of sithanen and along with him the alliance social, in the face of visible world economic downturn and its repercussions on Mauritius is normal business. The Prime Minister mode of logic and reasoning sent an astounding perturbation in the country. When hundreds of people been losing their jobs, the endless fall in the abyss been amplified, the number of mismanagements inside government run organizations, outside budget measures –like the 1% deduction on private sector employees, the recent pay award for only those earning up to Rs12,000, the fuel price fixing scenarios, insecurity and law and order problems, -that to many are the fundamental challenges not taken on board , Mauritian will definitely feel worse off.
Inundated by the Social alliance concerns, Dr Ramgoolam took time for hinting that the opposition been claiming the paternity for projects that belong exclusively to labour manifesto. The people concerns are for more down to earth matters. Opting for the English language medium for expressing himself on the budget, then another Berlin wall stood between the captain and the crew. By the end of the tall exposure on budget measures and their potential for a bullish development strategy , nobody seem convince nor got animated by the thought that the Authority in power know anything about their blighted fate. Darkness all around, light gone.
Who come first in the listing of projects like the land based ocean and others did not fit the time and place, and were not of interest for bread earners. The podium for Olympic medals for best achievements – then the debate on such issue is sterile. It was like a father bloating in pride to his children that he saw the light of day much for having been born earlier. In any case where does the country stand with the much vaunted land based ocean project? We might as well been having a quiz session with question like: How many times would Britain fit into the continent of Africa?
The rubber stamping approval of Budget 2009 is short-lived. Mark my words. Being full of generalities but short on specifics, did Prime Minister Ramgoolam, tell us anything that we did not know. Everything that was already said been coming back- like –“we are ahead of the curve”. But nothing worthwhile updated on the state of the economy leaves many questions unanswered.
The Mauritian Authority in power change is it real or an illusion? Dr, Ramgoolan explanations on the budget 2009 -nebulous explanations look all the more precarious.
I will say this upfront. I am very disappointed with the Budget debate in Parliament yesterday. Referring to Britain and Chancellor Darling during his intervention, dr Ramgoolam may take note of this:- Chancellor Darling: A Man Condemned by His Own Speech. Experienced economists, who have listened to countless budget speeches over coffee and canapés, all knew it. Ordinary Britons listening at home knew it. Even Alistair Darling knew it. This was a budget speech without precedent in living memory, a speech which made history, not for any bold initiative, or innovative announcement, but for the sheer doom-laden impact of the catastrophic statistics which Alistair Darling reeled off in his dour Scottish monotone.
Paradoxically, the most chilling part of Darling’s shocking budget speech was not the litany of dire statistics cataloguing Britain’s economic implosion. Those were at least expected. It was the delusional quality of the Treasury’s growth forecasts which had seasoned economists holding their heads in their hands.
If Darling is to be believed, the British economy will magically bounce back in 2010 and grow by more than 3.5% every year after that, conveniently mopping up the vast sea of public debt that Labour’s incompetence has created. That is fantasy, of course, and nobody outside HM Treasury believes a word of it.
On the 1st of June 2009, Darling apologised "unreservedly" about a mistaken claim for £700, and had agreed to repay the money. He was supported by the Prime Minister, who referred to the incident as an inadvertent mistake
The truth is, Labour have been lying to us for so long that they have utterly lost touch with reality. It is ordinary British taxpayers, and our children, who will pay the terrible price of Labour’s grand failure for decades, and probably generations, to come.
Mauritius set against this tsunami of economic woe has neither find real answer nor sound statesmanship – like in Britain. A tale of two islands. One may say.
| | | j.c.c | | | M.Esoof, Navin Ramgolam profite le manque d'expérience et l'incompétence des certains journaliste pour lui donner une stature de premier minsitre. Si les journalistes jouent bien leur rôle d'informer le public du danger de ce premier ministre communale et de son incompétence de prendre une décision sur les faits de la situations à Maurice, notre patrie serait alors là où il fait bon vivre. Malheureusement les grand défenseurs de démocracie ferment leur geuele et cpitule devant Navin ramgoolam, Car ce dernier sait comment manipule les média et la MBC. | | | Sylvain J | | | Nazim Esoof a bien identifier la chose, le marteau est bien tombe' sur la tete du clou, une belle chose. C'est vrai , Navin Ramgoolam ne vas pas en Engleterre juste pour se......................mais aussi apprendre les dernieres style et lecons pour developper son Profile , en Politique. Il apprend a travers les hommes Politiciens a Londres et a Paris. London Boy joue bien cette advantage et les pieux, ceux qui concentrent que sur les environments de notre Ile ne peut en developper les dernieres lecons pour ameliorer leur Jeu subtile mais deviant de toute verite' . le manipulateur est bien former par ses voyages. La crise economique et soudain il est Capitaine qui ne peut controller la VOH ou avoir le courage pour organiser un systeme d'election plus democratique , plus representant de la Societe mauricienne, plus juste pour Rodrigues et Agalega et St Brandon , plus honnete pour les Diego Garcians...pour cela pas de formation car les Politiciens de Vision et de sagesse nous ont laisser de notre merde de maudit et malsains. | | | Tizan | | | Cette phrase : 'Certes, les effets de la crise poussent un certain nombre de citoyens à reporter leurs malheurs sur la mauvaise gestion du gouvernement.' sonne comme une ABSURDITE ! Puis quoi encore!!??!!I Il faut appeler un chat : un chat et La mauvaise gouvernance : la mauvaise gouvernance!! Sans détour!! Vous ne croyez tout de même pas que le peuple qui se sert de la crise pour décrier la gestion catastrophique des institutions publiques et parapubliques !?! Il suffit d'ouvrir les yeux, regarder les chiffres et lire les journaux pour constaté l'incompétence de ce gouvernement !! La thèse que Navin 'surf' sur la crise j'y crois pas non plus. A l'heure des bilans, il devra se mettre en première ligne - surtout depuis qu'il s'est proclamé capitaine - et cette fois les promesses farfelues ne suffiront pas! Il faudra qu'il réponde à la population sur toutes les faillites et les actions litigeuses de son gouvernement! Le prétexte de la crise a tout de même des limites et il faudra assumer le poste de leader du gvt sortant et le bilan qui va avec - et ça c'est pas un scoop! | | | Pitt Bull | | | Navin a su maitriser la situation. Il aurait pu faire mieux, même anéantir ses adversaires ( avec Sithanen) en les invitants à une table ronde arbitraire et il a montré au peuple que la crise économique est prioritaire .Il a même reussi à laver ses linges sale en trouvant une solution pour le problème de "sale by levy" en calmant son ennemi mortel , Harish Boodhoo. Même Paul s'est sauvé à l'invitation de Sithanen.AND THE WINNER IS NAVIN RAMGOOLAM even I have not much sympathy for his "petits copains". | |
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