They are securing their positions and at the same time binding PDM to support them both in cash and kind in their bid to seek re-election. This is the desirable option given that PDM whilst in government has access to public facilites which can be used for campaign purposes mostly the access to the national treasury that is important to these politicians. For the short term, PDM's position seems highly energised with the presence of 70 MPs under its umbrella but for the long term, neither of them is any smarter because both will be badly done with at the polls. The 2002 election is for the underdogs and of the 109 members, all of them have been in or associated with either the Skate government or the Mekere government. It is ironic that Mekere had been in both governments.
Democracy requires mass participation in the process of government and public administration.
It must be mass participation by an informed population because it is with access to information that a conscientious decision can be made to act one way or another. In essence, democracy is a government by a few for the few in the name of the majority or the mass. Highly unlikely, because of lack of information due to our mass being illiterate and thus, lacking the capacity to make a meaningful contribution. Our future as a nation looks bleak because without a decent education we breed intellectual poverty which is fatal to the national interest. For the year 2002 and beyond we want to see a core of national leaders who are conscientious about the ordinary people and their needs.