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| | Par:- Nazim Esoof
On 18/11/2009 |
L’Alliance sociale avait remporté les dernières élections en faisant campagne sur des promesses sociales. Elle vient, au bout de son mandat, de présenter un budget avec de fortes propositions sociales. Personne n’est oublié: des groupes vulnérables aux vieux en passant par les handicapés et d’autres groupes sociaux sensibles.
Le gouvernement de l’Alliance sociale et son ministre des Finances restent donc cohérents dans leur approche.
C’est, en fin de compte, un budget qui sent le démarrage d’une campagne électorale. Même s’il n’y a pas eu d’annonce spectaculaire, même si toutes les tergiversations pour savoir s’il fallait accorder une compensation salariale ou non pourraient ne relever que de mise en scène et même si le faux suspense maintenu autour de l’Additional Stimulus Package a connu sa conclusion, il reste que le dernier budget de Rama Sithanen s’inscrit dans une logique d’énumérations. Les mesures sont, en effet, pléthoriques. Et, encore une fois, comme pour beaucoup de budgets présentés par différents ministres des Finances, on se dit que le pays changerait de face, radicalement et littéralement, si toutes ces mesures sont mises en place.
C’est toujours dans le suivi et la réalisation des projets qu’il existe un hic. Les cassandres diront que c’est un système vicieux et qu’on ne s’en sortira pas. Les plus optimistes s’attendront qu’avec la sortie programmée de la crise, les choses iront mieux dans les mois à venir. Pour les plus réalistes, les attentes sont mesurées et les craintes d’un avenir plus sombre sont également objectives. Ceux-là verront déjà que des temps durs nous attendent. La plus grande appréhension a trait aux élections législatives qui pointent à l’horizon.
Place donc, désormais, à la campagne électorale. Les quelques mesures populistes annoncées devraient rassurer les partisans de l’Alliance sociale sur la nature de l’action de leurs champions. Quant aux détracteurs de cette alliance, ils reprendront la formule de Bérenger: «ce n’est que du blabla» ce discours de Sithanen.
Au-delà des engagements partisans, il y a surtout cette peur que la prochaine campagne électorale ne cause une véritable fracture dans le pays. Il faudrait se fier au bon sens de nos politiques. En ce jour où le gouvernement réaffirme sa volonté de moderniser le pays, il y a un réel besoin de toutes les énergies pour avancer dans la bonne direction. Si seulement, on pouvait ne retenir que cet impératif…
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| Baltazar | | | On distribue du sucre aux fourmis laborieuses pour survivre le temps dûre jusqu'à l'élection. On a besoin d'une force déterminée pour aller voter les sauveurs. Mais quand le stock sera épuisé, personne n'en pense. Pour les cigales, ils ont le "stimulous package" prolongé jusqu'à fin 2010. Mais si la crise économique continue ???Même si le partage du gateau n'est pas juste pour tout le monde, on ne peut pas faire des miracles. Réaliste ou optimiste, la survie et l'éxistence est garantie jusqu'à ??? Realisateur et acteur, Rama Sithanen fait bonne face. Compliments ! | | | From: Top Knot | | | From: Top Knot
Which Finance Minister? Which speech? Who cares?
Un budget qui sent le démarrage d’une campagne électorale. Pour les plus réalistes, les attentes sont mesurées et les craintes d’un avenir plus sombre sont également objectives. Ceux-là verront déjà que des temps durs nous attendent. Au-delà des engagements partisans, il y a surtout cette peur que la prochaine campagne électorale ne cause une véritable fracture dans le pays./ The criticisms about electioneering are correct. Mauritius budget Speech neglects the problems: the deficit and expenses. Like the coinciding Queen speech in Britain- there is not enough time for implementation. The Mauritius’s budget Speech was ephemeral and a missed opportunity, as well as being, paradoxically, very revealing about the Government’s thinking. Most of the measures will deservedly soon be forgotten and will have little influence on the election compared with what was not mentioned: specific measures to reduce the budget deficit and sorting out the average citizen routine problems. We may all be missing one point- miss the point. The real worry about the Government’s declaratory Bills — enshrining goals on deficit reduction, eliminating child poverty etc in legislation — and the new public service guarantees is not that they are gesture politics but that ministers really believe in them. But targets without resources are a waste of time. Social alliance sometimes seems to believe that virtue can be created by statute. Yet good intentions are never enough. Even as a political tactic intended to trap the opposition through tall list of social targets proposals- the opposition parties may, rightly, disapprove of the Bills but they will not vote against them. Consequently, more of the Bills may become law than is widely assumed, even if not in the form heralded yesterday. The Government’s approach is both defensive and a misuse of time. The two real pre-election priorities should be a credible plan for getting the public finances right, and sorting out the adequate pay compensation issue, as a first step towards halting the hemorrhage in public confidence in Parliament. But the latter was ignored, and the Government seems in no hurry to push through its big constitutional Bill. The reforms on electoral process gone into oblivion. The present Parliament is discredited and exhausted. The least it can, and should, do is to try to clean up politics. One of the rules in understanding politics: Most people, most of the time, aren’t following. And the gulf between the amount of attention politicians and pundits believe voters are paying and the amount they are actually paying is vast. In any given week you can read any amount of political speculation about how an event or an individual might influence the next election. The speculation goes this way and that — he’s up, he’s down — and no one ever seems to reflect that the overwhelming likelihood is that hardly anyone has heard of the individual concerned or cares about the event being discussed. It’s the dirty secret of politics. In his book Tides of Consent James Stimson records pollsters’ surprise when they started investigating public opinion in America. They had thought the public would be reasonably well informed. “The tone of astonishment of these first reports is testimony to the wild unreality of the portrait we expected to see. What these studies found was that ordinary Americans knew almost nothing about public affairs, and appeared to care about issues as much as they knew: almost not at all.” Politicians and pundits share the idea that people are constantly re-evaluating their position. But not at all. At a few big moments they might pause and think again; the rest of the time they let events float by, or at best reinterpret them to fit with their existing views. But out of all this, surprisingly, something heartening emerges. And that’s where the Budget or be it Britain’s Queen Speech comes in. Because people don’t know, aren’t following and don’t believe politicians and their promises, they can only judge them on one thing. Whether what politicians do works. Political ignorance isn’t stupidity, it’s economical use of time. Social alliances hope that the Budget’s Speech will establish dividing lines with the opposition. This is an entirely forlorn hope. Voters won’t notice these dividing lines. And they won’t notice the measures in the address until they begin to make an impact on their lives. Which, since there isn’t much time left before the election, they won’t. In other words, that was a day when everyone got dressed up, the finance minister spoke, Prime minister Ramgoolam spoke and ministers spoke. But the national television corporation missed the commentary of the citizens, the viewers. Everyone went home again and nothing of any political significance had happened. But while political ignorance isn't, in itself, stupidity. It is stupid not to educate oneself sufficiently to make the right choices for oneself and one's society. Why those interested in politics have now lost interest. Assuming that everyone else out there, that they're interested in politics, and that the apathy prevails –what are the underlying reasons. Many are saying that the general public DOESN’T CARE. They don't dislike politics for often evoked reasons; it's not that they've become tired with the lies, or the finger pointing in PM Question Time. It's saying they never cared in the first place. They're not disillusioned with the political process, it's that they never had any illusions in the first place because they've NEVER CARED. Because we may be surrounded by people who do care, yet we make the mistake in thinking that all others outside of our group are the same, and cannot comprehend that apathy can come from a total lack of interest that is NOT formed from disgust at the political class. In other words, the apathy/ignorance has not come from an informed viewpoint at the failure of our political system. It has just come from general apathy and lack of knowledge, a bit of a chicken or the egg situation! When a budget long full hours been read and will be debated in English, the huge majority in the country become ever so distant. Helping the citizen through instant translation in their very own dialect help to restore a common bond, and averting the fractured process that is very real and tangible. Discovering the Gross Domestic Happiness index in Mauritius – that what the ministry of finance may dwell upon in all seriousness.
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