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Topic Discussion II
Building Public Trust
Elections & Legislatures
Room 1
(17 of 21 pages)
This is the United Nations. The United Nations has failed to play any clear role.
There have been so many instances the United Nations have been set aside from the political arena and we know that
economies of countries depend on draining the economic resources of the other developed countries who do need assistance.
Don't you think, also there are other cases; I may cite the example of a simple case, which is indicative. We may
consider what took place in the fall; the democracy they are in is based on exercising power through lobbies. Such
lobbies have their orientations and trends. We can never accept such a case and conditions. If there is call and
advocacy for globalization we have to start and base ourselves on democratic rules, as human beings are one of
the same worldwide. It is nonsense to have a Security Council with members who have the right to take decisions.
Among such members some of them have the veto right which cripples democracy in the final analysis.
In as much as we find solutions within our countries to establish democracy, we would discermount and tackle all
the impediments to democracy and in order to eliminate all barriers to democracy establishment. There is one body
or one country which steers other countries and which distributes rules. There is democracy but we have as it were
the glass ceiling as it were. I wouldn't dwell into such things.
With regard to women there is the glass roof or ceiling. This is exactly what she said we have to solve such problems
moreover if we define democracy as a means to realize welfare of human beings and to strike balance between relations.
I was astonished when I was coming to Yemen. I was on board of the craft they were defining and they were televising
a film speaking of Yemen and I wondered that they were just dealing with the negative aspects of Yemen and this
is not too good. This does not take place in the entire world. There is no single picture although some people
claim that we are taking matters comprehensively unrealistically. This matter should be as such. The democratic
institute presents itself as a body seeking to achieve comprehensive and overall methodology. Thank you.
Chair: Thank you very much.
Speaker: Women in Mozambique are actually an important aspect. We are talking about the institutional quotas.
There is a time when the voices that have favorable to the quota system I don't agree with the quota system. The
women have to find their own spaces and fight for their spaces. The question of quotas takes away women's independence.
Hen the political parties insist on the quota system for the women because the women become independent within
the party system because of the quota system.
The other issue is free media. The media has to be very very independent and independent in what they write. For
example in the issue of corruption this also has to do with the economic independence of the actual media itself.
What happens in my country in Mozambique is that men in independent media and private media do not have this economic
resources. The major media in Mozambique is linked to the ruling political party of the government. Because they
also received the sources from their own political parties.
My issue and my question is what are the experiences from other countries and how are they helping independent
media and private media to really become and report in a very independent way? I am a member of the assembly and
as a parliamentarian I would like raise one issue related to assembly. The relationship between the Member of Parliament
his or her constituency and the support between the two civil societies and the Member of Parliament. We approve
it the assembly has to start from the bottom up. In my country there is a lot of top down type of approach. Very
little effort is done to ensure the participation of civil society or the consultation of civil society during
the drafting of the bill before the approval.
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