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]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: is constitutions protected against arbitrary changes ? >Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 19:21:28 +0200 > >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 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------