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Topic Discussion II
Building Public Trust
Elections & Legislatures
Room 1
(12 of 21 pages)
We have three rules, the first on elections, the second on parties. The elections
rule by virtue of which a national assembly is established comprising outstanding members who are elected by two-thirds
majority. The rule adopted a few days ago would ensure financial assistance to the electing parties. This if they
do not gain three percent of the votes they have to return this financial assistance otherwise they would be fined.
This would guarantee the right and good access to make publicity in the mass media in order to communicate and
convey the concepts and ideas to the people. This law would allow them and permit them. No single political party
whatever it could be and whatever powerful, they are not permitted to take advantage of a single mass media means.
Also imposes a certain percentage to the number of candidates for elections are women. This constitutional body
would oversee and run the elections and this body would cancel the whole process when there is a necessity to do
so. This would impose fines on parties that are deemed violating the law and infringing the law. All the ethical
or legal levels. Even the registration of the electoral, there is a body that registers and oversees the single
national register in my country. This register that provides the electoral court.
Many governments have spoiled the whole electoral process because of the absence of this register. In other words
I do believe, and to sum up the whole thing, there are three key aspects that could serve as indicators. This is
the necessity of creating the legal framework and I would recall you that political parties are playing a clear
role that would entitle the rights to all the parties concerned. This framework, this legal framework should be
supervised by an executive independent body that is economically and politically independent. Such a body should
consist of members of the council who are elected from within the best of all members. This should be a social
control that would allow the mass media means to express freely their viewpoints and would disclose all violations
not only mass media, this is the pressman. The pressman who also infringes all the rules and norms in addition
to other societal bodies such as professionals who represent all sectors of the society.
Given the three aspects that I have thrown into the floor, I hope that they would be debated and paying attention
to our own experience in Bolivia. Thank you.
Chair: Madam.
Speaker: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. After the intervention [inaudible] who is the former chairperson of the
constitutional court that gave us the necessary information, even outstanding information, I would like only to
speak about some factors of weakening of democracy and here some people had this reflection also or have found
solutions. It is very important for us. As a matter of fact I would like to speak about buying the vote on conscience
due to extreme poverty prevailing as illiteracy and adults in the age of voting namely women.
I would like to speak about the tribal ethnic struggles that the adults in the age of voting... He can also do
that with his son. I would also like to speak about the press that is the logic of the markets tells some truth
of course in order to turn into ridiculous or to lie a little bit that is without any conscious in our country
and finally of course I would like to speak about this factor that weakens our democracy, the insufficiency of
personnel of staff, the insufficiency of justice or even those who control the territorial security. This is an
important factor of democracy.
This is our experience and I thank Mr. Chairman.
Speaker: Thank you, Mr. Moderator, I would like to speak and thank you for the extraordinary opportunity
for us as journalists and of course as a multimedia independent group in Mali. Mali has opened its doors to democracy.
We are very pleased to have more than 70 private trades in our country and to have more than 30 independent newspapers.
If we are here it is because we are all satisfied and because it is also a main source of problem.
Also at least in Southern Africa because I was in Angola so from the point of view of the observatory and also
in the west we had the opportunity to notice a good path followed by democracy such as in Benna (ph) as Madam said
it and she was very courageous in the very fundamental moments.
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