Rwandan Petition May Help Kagame Extend Rule to Third Decade

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/rwandan-petition-may-help-kagame-extend-his-rule-to-third-decade

Maxime Pasi posted in Friends of Reason

May 12 at 11:20am

I was listening to a Rwandan Radio show and I was struck by the hypocritical nature of those who want to extend the Kagame rule beyond the constitutional 2-term limit! They always cite democratic countries like UK, Canada and Germany as examples of where the head of government doesn't have a term limit. But, what they don't seem to understand (or willingly twist) is the kind of government those countries have. In Rwanda we have chosen a 'presidential system' similar to what we see in Brazil, US or France.

In a DEMOCRATIC presidential system, the President has a term limit. In UK, Canada and Germany, they have a 'parliament system' where the head of government is not elected by the people but the members of parliament and therefore not subjected to any term limit although they tend to leave early because of the open and competitive nature of democracy in those countries. Also, the head of government in those countries, usually the Prime Minister, doesn't have all the power, the parliament does. And there is a 'head of state', the Queen, in case of UK and Canada or the President in Germany.

It's deeply misleading to try to compare the Rwandan AUTOCRATIC presidential system with the British DEMOCRATIC parliament system. The presidential system stipulated in the Rwandan Constitution can only be compared to other presidential systems like in US, France ot Brazil. Those countries have term limits. A presidential system with no term limit is call 'dictatorship' or 'tyranny' and that's exactly what Kagame is trying to achieve.

[The main difference between a parliamentary and presidential system of government is that in a presidential system, the president is separate from the legislative body, but in a parliamentary system, the chief executive, such as a prime minister, is part of the legislative body, or parliament. A presidential system separates the executive and legislative functions of the government and provides what are commonly called checks and balances to limit the power of both the chief executive and the legislature. In a parliamentary system, the legislature holds the power, and the chief executive must answer to the legislature. Another main difference is that in a presidential system, the chief executive and members of the legislature are elected separately by the people, but in a parliamentary system, the legislature is elected by the people and then must appoint or recommend for appointment one of its members to be the chief executive.]

Rwandan Petition May Help Kagame Extend Rule to Third Decade

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