After the broaching by the AFC of the no-confidence motion, many analysts opined that the President could have forestalled the AFC’s move by agreeing with APNU to hold local government elections (LGE). To obtain local elections, APNU might well have been persuaded to withhold support of the AFC’s motion. After all, APNU’s obvious focus for more than about eighteen months was on LGE. That was not only because LGE are decades overdue, but some say that APNU also strongly preferred LGE to reduce the likelihood of prorogation substantially. Why then would the PPP prefer to risk losing everything at a general election, when it had another option available? The answer may lie in the normally authoritarian nature of the current PPP. It has been said that the current PPP regime is irredeemably anti-democratic. It has been said, that democratic renewal cannot occur unless the PPP is removed from the executive. The fact that LGE is not an option for the current PPP, proves the thesis. Citizen participation is the very foundation of democratic governance. Decent-ralised power is a cornerstone of democracy. Functional local government bodies facilitate both of the above. That being the case, a dictatorial regime, such as the current PPP, will never allow the people to exercise decision-making power at the community level.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 06:11:38 +0000
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