Asbjorn,
Is like this if the laws of gravity keep changing like  the human desire!
The Universe will collapse!!!
         kalilu


>From: Asbjørn Nordam <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: is constitutions protected against arbitrary changes ?
>Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 19:21:28 +0200
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>Friends, who can answer the question: how is the gambian constitution
>protected against arbitrary changes. ?
>I just saw on danish TV news, that Robert Mugabe and his SANU party has
>changed the constitution of Zimbabwe, so no matter if the opposition win
>the
>election they will not win the government.
>Mugabe has changed the constitution so that he as president can appoint 30
>parliament members himself. That means that the opposition will have to win
>at least 30 candidates and districts more than SANU just to get the
>majority. So even they win the majority of votes they can not be sure to
>get
>the majority of the parliament. What a democratic order ?
>And that is not all. The news also said that no matter who is elected to
>the
>parliament, and if the opposition win a clear majority, it is the president
>who appoint the government.
>So the  sitting prime minister has just declared, that no matter how the
>elections falls out, he will still be the leader of the government and his
>government will be sitting, no matter what. ?
>
>So that again get me to think of the question I put to the Bantaba some
>days
>ago: How is the gambian constitution secured against such arbitrary changes
>or is it ?
>
>Question from Asbjørn Nordam
>
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