What is mo­ti­vat­ing this push for the runoff poll is the ques­tion to be an­swered. Want­i­ng to en­hance the democ­ra­cy to "give peo­ple a greater say" through a sec­ond vote is an ar­gu­ment that has not been ad­e­quate­ly made, in fact it could be ar­gued that it de­nies to the orig­i­nal vot­ers their right of choice and seeks to force them in the runoff poll to sup­port a par­ty not of their choos­ing.

There­fore we have to look else­where for a far more con­vinc­ing mo­ti­vat­ing force for the gov­ern­ment fab­ri­cat­ing and shov­ing down the throats of the pop­u­la­tion the runoff el­e­ment of the Con­sti­tu­tion Amend­ment Bill, the in­sti­ga­tion for which did not come from the peo­ple.

Con­vinced that they are on their way out of of­fice be­cause of po­lit­i­cal mis­man­age­ment, al­le­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion and gross in­ef­fi­cien­cy and pos­si­bly more by min­is­ters, and the build-up of deep dis­trust of its in­ten­tions by the elec­torate, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her co­horts at­tempt­ed to give them­selves big fat pen­sions to sus­tain them when they leave of­fice.

Caught out in that piece of slack­ness, the PP had to then turn to re­main­ing in pow­er by hook or crook. Why? Kick­ing the pow­er habit is not easy, not on­ly be­cause of the psy­cho­log­i­cal sever­i­ty of the with­draw­al symp­toms, but for prac­ti­cal rea­sons.The fi­nan­cial and oc­cu­pa­tion­al re­wards of be­ing in pow­er are wide­spread. Not many of the present crop of par­lia­men­tar­i­ans would have been more gain­ful­ly em­ployed es­pe­cial­ly out­side of min­is­te­r­i­al of­fice.

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