02 January 2007

Natacha Almeida

From: Natacha Almeida <natacha_almeida@yahoo.com>
Date: 30 December 2006 4:43:00 AM
Subject: Re: [ETSA] Re: Speech by President of Partidu Republikanu

My concern is if east timor just had a president then it will be worse in term of governing a democratic state. Xanana, if elected in 2007, could be one the worst dictator in south east asia and certainly worse, than Alkatiri, in his centralistic approach over political decision making.These recent events have proved it clearly. He will ridiculously attack anyone,anywhere, or any political party that is not in line with his political ideas.  I mean this man is already a living god for some timorese, if he is to take the rule as a sole executive president without a proper power balance and sharing, one can just imagine what east timor as a state would be transformed into. If not a Xanana Republic then a banana republic would be the worst scenario.     
Ken Westmoreland <ken_westmoreland@hotmail.com> wrote:
The problem is that East Timor's opposition is fragmented already,
with or without the Republican Party, the Millennium Democratic
Party, or any other small party. There are too many generals and not
enough soldiers. The size of Parliament is going to be cut, so the
existing opposition parties should be forming an alliance or merging
into a larger one, not splintering. Even if they manage to unseat
Fretilin from power, they've still got to work together in government.

It would be better to have an executive president, like the US or
Indonesia, and scrap the office of prime minister. With a
parliamentary system, like Portugal or Australia, you can't decide
who the head of government will be. Alkatiri would never have got
into power had there not been such a system.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear all,


If Xanana really steps down, we don't need to have a prime Minister or president. Just president or prime Minister.

We had no human resources and money ti build a sophisticated system, but it only cause trouble

Adeus

February 11, 2007 at 4:43:00 AM UTC
Anonymous said...

Bro.. I really agree with you but let me jus bring to your knowledge that there are 2 systems, Semi Presidential and Presidential. So there could be only a President, then Vice-President if needed and the rest Ministers in avery sexy structure, not faty like this. But we can not opt a system where there's only PM. So let us defend a presidential system with effective stakeholders and aim most of the financial resources for the people welfare. Get rid of numerous of Vice-Ministers, Secretary of States etc. With a population under 1 million a Governor is enough.

Fuanboot

February 26, 2007 at 7:36:00 AM UTC

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