End Swapo dominance - PDM
The official opposition has appealed to voters in northern Namibia to break the ruling party's two-thirds parliamentary majority in the interest of the country's future.
The leader of the Popular Democratic Movement, McHenry Venaani, on Saturday called on people in northern Namibia to stop voting the ruling Swapo Party into power with a two-thirds majority.
Speaking at the opening of the meeting of the 72-member PDM Central Committee in Oshakati, Venaani said the nation's prosperity was in the hands of the people of the north.
He said the two-thirds majority that northerners gave Swapo was bad for politics and bad for Namibia's socio-economic status. He also said it had resulted in its leaders “no longer listening to reason and logic, sleeping in parliament and no longer honouring their legislative responsibilities”.
“We, as a nation, must reverse this – too much power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” Venaani said.
The leader of the official opposition then appealed to the Namibian electorate to give his party a chance to govern the country, adding that Namibians could immediately recall a PDM government if it failed to deliver.
Venaani said it was disappointing that the government under President Hage Geingob's leadership came into power promising prosperity for all Namibians, but it eventually ran the country into national insolvency. Namibia's economy, he said, needed less talk and more action in order to recover.
“We have heard too many theories, but there is a lack of political action to take our nation forward,” stated the PDM leader.
He said his party would table a motion in the National Assembly next week on the provision of free undergraduate study courses in order to fill the skills gap that confronts the economy.
“We need to create a better tomorrow by planting its seed today and planning for it,” said Venaani, adding that the PDM would further sharpen its parliamentary arsenal to raise issues vital for a better future for Namibians.
He also disclosed that the party would hold its extraordinary congress at Outapi in the Omusati Region towards the end of November or early December, and its elective congress at Keetmanshoop in the //Karas Region in February next year. Venaani warned PDM members that the party would not condone “slate politics” and character assassination of candidates at its elective congress, because that would result in disunity.
Speaking at the opening of the meeting of the 72-member PDM Central Committee in Oshakati, Venaani said the nation's prosperity was in the hands of the people of the north.
He said the two-thirds majority that northerners gave Swapo was bad for politics and bad for Namibia's socio-economic status. He also said it had resulted in its leaders “no longer listening to reason and logic, sleeping in parliament and no longer honouring their legislative responsibilities”.
“We, as a nation, must reverse this – too much power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” Venaani said.
The leader of the official opposition then appealed to the Namibian electorate to give his party a chance to govern the country, adding that Namibians could immediately recall a PDM government if it failed to deliver.
Venaani said it was disappointing that the government under President Hage Geingob's leadership came into power promising prosperity for all Namibians, but it eventually ran the country into national insolvency. Namibia's economy, he said, needed less talk and more action in order to recover.
“We have heard too many theories, but there is a lack of political action to take our nation forward,” stated the PDM leader.
He said his party would table a motion in the National Assembly next week on the provision of free undergraduate study courses in order to fill the skills gap that confronts the economy.
“We need to create a better tomorrow by planting its seed today and planning for it,” said Venaani, adding that the PDM would further sharpen its parliamentary arsenal to raise issues vital for a better future for Namibians.
He also disclosed that the party would hold its extraordinary congress at Outapi in the Omusati Region towards the end of November or early December, and its elective congress at Keetmanshoop in the //Karas Region in February next year. Venaani warned PDM members that the party would not condone “slate politics” and character assassination of candidates at its elective congress, because that would result in disunity.
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