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• Takes all 11 years ago

  Strip some of the powers of the executive President, parliament should initiate their own bills and pass them and should not come from the executive. At the district level for effective decentralization, the masses should mak ...
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  Strip some of the powers of the executive President, parliament should initiate their own bills and pass them and should not come from the executive. At the district level for effective decentralization, the masses should make their own choice based on elections supporting effective governance with a bottom-up approach and not a top-down. For complete independence and effective monitoring of the executive, parliament should be granted awesome powers as a true will and representation of the masses, the very genesis of democracy, and not the other way round where the powers are concentrated in the President.
  Not so sure about proportional representation in parliament backed by constitutional instrument since it's a competitive type of democracy/process and a party's representation invariably would depend on the depth of it's message and how well the citizenry buys into the message, to have confidence to entrust their mandate to a candidate to counter-balance and engender the best possible outcomes on issues of national importance and at the constituency level. In that regard maybe political party financing could be factored into the whole equation.
  Again with power sharing with respect to appointments, don't see the essence of a constitutional instrument to bring that into effect, in the face of different ideologies, backgrounds and outlooks on governance.
  Basically, the powers of the President needs to be looked at, powers of parliament need to be looked at, decentralized governance needs to be looked at, and hese should be backed by constitutional instruments. The rest should be left to the dynamics of competitive politics based on meritocracy and competence which could be plucked from anywhere, by a gov't seriously desirous of good governance and effective leadership.

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