Since 2007 this country has embraced democracy as its political system of governance after a long history of mixed democratic-monarchical dictatorship. The main features added in this newly adopted system were the existence of political parties, freedom of press and human rights to the level of international standards. In the system of democratic governance the most important body is the parliament, people send representatives to the parliament after electing them through the ballot boxes, but it is sad to say that the moment they are elected they cease to be people’s representatives. They become representatives of a government favored parties, their close relations and friends and their cronies. Promises made to the voters are conveniently forgotten and the representatives pursue their personal agenda which includes foreign travels at the state’s expenses, climbing the highest rung of the political ladder and liaising with declared adversaries to retain privileged positions and other types of unlawful gains such as bribes . The funny feature of these representatives is very impressing which leaves the voter guessing about his representative’s honesty and political morality. Since candidates are sponsored by different political parties at the time of elections, the elected representatives become big or small warring groups inside the house of parliament and state assemblies. During the last few years and particularly after the 2012 coup they carried in their portfolios personal hatreds and animosities, and instead of conducting parliamentary proceedings smoothly and judiciously, clashed each other in the heat of disputations and created such nasty scenes. Some of them had to be reminded by the Speaker that it was their parliamentary duty to observe decency and decorum in the house. Inside some state assemblies the scenes of intra-party quarrels resembled those which could only be generated by mob-violence. The use of abusive language and fisticuffs and the hurling of chairs and mikes at political opponents turned assembly halls into pandemonium. The supporters who watched the battle scenes on television screens suspect that they had voted, as their representatives, to street-muggers in disguise of statesmen.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:39:55 +0000
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