Michelle Mevs
Participation of citizen in politics at a higher level is essential.
The people worldwide think that their vote is worth its weight of hope. Hope for change is everything to the population both as a group and as individuals. Indeed, the right to vote which is the right to elect a symbol, a personification of hope, is essential to people. When you see the determination in the 'Arab street', when you see the ordinary guy ready to give up its life for a change of regime, it all becomes clear that: Nowadays, participation of citizen in politics at a higher level is essential.
Haiti celebrates the past month a change of regime with a new government: the one of Michel j. Marthelly which brings hope for system-change. Our President says let's put-down of the old society entwined in Preval's 'status quo' and 'monopoly' of power and politics. Meanwhile, the chambers, which is one arm of the democratical mechanism , which constitute the elements of check and balance in Haiti...., finds itself in quite an ' inconfortable' position. After consideration, it becomes clear that the chambers have lost confidence of the people and thus cannot ensure its important constitutional function.
Why, one can ask? The reason: being an element of the previous 'status quo' party and of the political old-school ideology, the chambers representing in majority members the old regime party: Inite. This why, people in this country as well as in the haitiano-diaspora, are at a loss, often wondering about the goal or interests behind any and all intervention of the chambers....
In conlusion, IN HAITI has risen a political necessity: Space for a new opposition is opened. ( yes, even outside boundries of government and possibly justified by the revolution- street movement world-wide, the youth and visionary appeal for change of the time!)
A new generation is in command in Haiti, a corresponding opposition should rise!
America (the U.S.A) is not the center of our future. Haiti has its own story and should build a better future for its own specificity & culture always -even remembering that it lies within the Americian sphrere of influence.
Our strenght should be to demonstrate our will and capacity to prevail on our own. Setting an opposition-voice is one of the roads...
Time has come. The civil society together with some long-time 'fighters for political & social improvement' (and they are many great men on the terrain in Haitit who could be named here) must come forward to concretise a worthwile opposition-force, voice, yes 'tet kale' itself, at the level of the new haitian gouvernemental power: 'tetkale'regime.
What is democracy with proper opposition?
Meanwhile, the haitian press (the established mainstream medias) having recognized the weight of the social medias and having welcomed- for quite some time- its participation in online-communication- tribunes opened both to the general local public and the haitian-diaspora is now to become channel of the new opposition. Is it too much to believe that a pressing agenda calls for the haitian press to include now on its opened lines the voice of a well set and organised opposition? Securing democracy is n' t that a necessity for the ordinary man of the street and of any other group of society dealing with a new government, new regime, good-willed, zelous but inexperienced?
OF COURSE, MEANWHILE THE HAITIAN PRESS IS ALREADY RECOGNISED BOTH LOCALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY
AS A CHAMPION OF DEMOCRACY, it is clear that THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL HAS EXPRESSED
MANY TIMES ITS CONCERN when THE VOICE OF THE MEDIAS, HAS BEEN, TIME AND TIMES OVER, SQUARELY IGNORED by Goverments. THIS MIGHT BE UNDERLINEd AS ONE MORE REASON AND A MOTIVATION SUSTAINING THIS CALL; THE INTERVENTION OF A WELL ORGANIZED AND DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION.
THE QUESTION REMAINS NOW:
WHO IN THE POLITICAL ARENA,WHO INDEED, WILL COME FORWARD AND ASSUME THIS ROLE of A reliable LEADER OF CIVIL- OPPOSITION? - A COURAGEOUS VISIONARY LEADER WOULD BE THE PROFILE REQUIRED...-
THIS CHAMPION, THIS LEADER, WILL CERTAINLY BE ONE HAITIAN CAPABLE OF QUESTIONING FALTS/ ERRORS AND OR APPROVING GOUVERNMENT DECISIONS AND POLICIES; COMING UP WITH IDEAS AND SOLUTIONS. HIS STAND WOULD BE TO COMMUNICATE TO THE ORDINARY GUY AND THE OTHERS, THE GENERAL PUBLIC, THROUGH THE MASS MEDIAS AND OF SOCIAL MEDIAS. HIS ACTIVITIES CAN BE IMPLEMENTED IN SO MANY WAYS...
IT IS WELKNOWN THAT IN RECENT PAST, CIVIL SOCIETY IN HAITI, HAS TRIED DESESPERATELY TO EXPRESS AND SURVIVE BUT, HAS BEEN SHATERED ON WHAT ONE COULD SAY: A NEGATIVE POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE, NOT AT ALL FAVOURABLE FOR ITS COURAGEUOUS INTERVENTIONS.
ESSENTIALLY, THERE ARE SO MANY GOVERNMENT-DECISIONS THAT AFFECT in so many ways, EVERY CITIZEN OF THE HAITIAN LAND AND OF THE EXILED HAITIANS IN DIAPORA OF WHICH BOTH FEEL FRUSTRATED HAVING NO CONTROL WHAT SO EVER. TIME HAVE CHANGED AND HAITI CANNOT GO BACK ON OLD 'LANGUE -DE BOIS PRESIDENTIAL PREDATORY REGIMES . AN INSTRUMENT IS NECESSARY TO ENSURE OPEN LINES.
HOPELESNESS AND DEPENDENCY ON FOREIGH FORCES AND INTERVENTIONS HAS TO BE BANNED IN HAITI.
THE ONLY WAY TO SECURE THAT IS-N'T IT TO ESTABLISH A STRONG OPPOSITION?
GOING FOR A FUNCTIONAL DEMOCRACY?
SUSTAINABLE DEMOCRACY REQUIRES FRUTFULL COLLABORATION POWER/GOVERNMENT IN PLACE
WITH OPPOSITION, RESULTING IN CAREFUL AND GOOD -GOUVERNANCE.
PEOPLE'S VOTE AND VOICES TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT THROUGH OPPOSITION IS A MUST.
HERE LIES THE HOPE FOR CHANGE ANDWHEN THERE IS HOPE THEIR IS NO POSSIBILITY OF GOING BACK TO PREDATORY DICTATORSHIP!
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