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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