It looks like Guinea's new leader (who took over in December after the death of the President) is putting on a bit of a populist show. Interviewing drug lords and individuals suspected of corruption live on TV and making promises about decreasing corruption, he is playing to the masses for support.
Guinea is an extremely poor (and very corrupt) country where basic necessities are unavailable to large numbers of people.
Verdict is not yet in how modest this new President will remain with time.
However he is calling for elections so hopefully that's a step in the right direction!
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I think you have the wrong link in the post title - it links to MFAT.
ReplyDeleteelections are always a good-ish step in the right direction but as we have seen sooo many times and in numerous examples from class the likelihood of an election being successfully democratic is some what debatable.
ReplyDeleteI always wonder what can be done in situations like this?
How can you pull a poor country which is soo corrupt out to save its people and its future.
Showing the people that he had recognised the problems of corruption is def a positive step. But will this help?
Considering how poor Guinea is, it seems unlikely that many people even own a television set, and would be unable to see his populist appeal anyway...
ReplyDeleteIn many poor countries people watch television communally - there is often one tv that people can gather around...though I don't know if that's the case in Guinea. But, given what we have studied this term, don't you think it's extremely unlikely that Mr. Camara will turn out to be a good democrat? His predecessor, who ruled with an iron hand for 30-odd years, also came into office after a coup promising the same sorts of things; and elections are the easiest thing in the world to manipulate.
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