Good governance or…?

It was the talk of the town; it seemed almost surreal — the misbehaviour in Parliament last Tuesday, November 3. The proceedings had hit a new low as members accused each other of pushing and shoving, using offensive language to describe each other’s mothers, and ultimately, the hurling of a string of expletives.

How had it come to this? It had been brewing for some time, and without a permanent resolution accepted by all, it festered and has now broken out into a sore.

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Do we know what we are doing? Do our parliamentary leaders recognise that they have brought us to a slippery slope? The Parliament is one of the pivotal institutions of our democracy. If we erode the Parliament and make it dysfunctional, then we place our nation and system of government on the cusp of an abyss.