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[Doorn]

Danas opozicija protestuje zbog nepravde. Za sutra najavljeno da ce slucaj da ide pred vrhovni sud. Internacionalni posmatraci danas raspravljaju i daju izjavu o mogucim ne pravilnostima. U medjuvremenu James Michel pozurio da vec danas polozi zakletvu i ovjeri novi vladajuci termin. Nedeljom on mulja i nece da ceka, a zna da glasanje nije u redu. Nije to ni prvi put. Tako oni vec 20 godina ostaju na vlasti. Mala nacija, dosta siromasnih i lako ih je kupiti.

[Doorn]

Ljudi bez obraza.

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Edited by Trn, 21 December 2015 - 10:22.

[A sad]

Danas opozicija protestuje zbog nepravde. Za sutra najavljeno da ce slucaj da ide pred vrhovni sud. Internacionalni posmatraci danas raspravljaju i daju izjavu o mogucim ne pravilnostima. U medjuvremenu James Michel pozurio da vec danas polozi zakletvu i ovjeri novi vladajuci termin. Nedeljom on mulja i nece da ceka, a zna da glasanje nije u redu. Nije to ni prvi put. Tako oni vec 20 godina ostaju na vlasti. Mala nacija, dosta siromasnih i lako ih je kupiti.

Bio sam ubedjen da je na Sejselima jako visok standard i da su stanovnici relativno imucni, mozda ne bogati, ali svakako ne siromasni. Ima li sense da se ljudi organizuju i na ulici skinu vlast? Ako sam dobro upoznat od drzavnog udara pre 40 godina na Sejselima nije bilo nikakve promene vlasti.

Nadam se da ces nas i dalje obavestavati sta se tamo desava.

[Doorn]

2015 Presidential runoff

An irregular affair

Despite the fact that James Michel was sworn in as President yesterday, the battle is far from over.

By Deepa Bhookhun

Never has a Presidential election been so problematic. The international observers yesterday refused to say whether the election was free, fair and transparent, adding that they will defer the announcement of their findings until after the Constitutional Court determines whether the election is valid or not. The Union for Change is expected to petition the court today.

While the observers’ refusal to endorse the election, speaks volumes in itself, they actually went as far as to suggest that the swearing in ceremony of the new President should not have taken place until the court has validated the Electoral Commission's decision to announce James Michel the winner of the 2015 Presidential election in the early hours of Saturday.
Honourable Justice Mahapela Lehohla from the ECF-SADC said yesterday during a meeting with the press that "there should be a neutral person to assume the power of State during the time that the election is being petitioned in court. In most countries, it is the Chief Justice who assumes this responsibility".

Mr Lehohla was reacting to a question on the number of days a person has to petition the court on the validity of an election. At the moment, a person has ten days to contest.

In Seychelles however, the law makes no provision for such a scenario, making it hard to question the legality of yesterday's swearing in ceremony. The law needs to be amended to further enhance the democratic process, SADC's Honourable Fezile Bhengu said without giving any specifics.

Another issue which has cropped up threatens to complicate the matter further. Alexia Amesbury told this newspaper yesterday that the Electoral Commission has "violated the law by declaring James Michel the winner".

The lawyer's argument is that Schedule 3, section 5 of the Constitution says that “subject to paragraphs 6 and 7, a person shall not be elected to the office of President unless he has received more than fifty percent of the votes in the election and the necessary number of ballots may, subject to the election being discontinued and recommenced in accordance with an Act, be held in accordance with the direction of the Electoral Commission to achieve that result.”

Read in conjunction with section 37(1) of the Elections Act, this, members of the Union for Change say, would suggest that the Electoral Commission should have calculated the candidates' results on the number of votes cast rather than the number of valid votes. Had they done so, neither of the candidates would have been declared the winner as the latter would have needed to obtain at least 31 947 votes. James Michel totalled 31 512 votes while Wavel Ramkalawan totalled 31 319 votes.

The Elections Act Section 37(1) says: “Where on the statement of the result transmitted to the Electoral Commission in respect of a Presidential Election, no candidate receives more than fifty percent of the votes cast, the Electoral Commission shall not declare the result of the election and the provision of paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 of the Constitution and sections 17 to 36 of this Act as applicable to the election shall apply to the second ballot”.

Does this mean that the results announced early Saturday morning are not valid? Was it right to take into account only valid votes or should the EC have taken into account the number of votes cast? This matter can only be settled by the Constitutional Court.

Some lawyers argue that the matter was settled in 2011 when the Constitutional Court declared that it was the number of valid votes that had to be taken into account and not the number of votes cast but others such as Alexia Amesbury say that this interpretation only concerned the matter of proportional representation in the National Assembly and not a Presidential election.

The leader of Seychelles National Party (SNP) Wavel Ramkalawan has already announced that the results will be contested. He refused to concede defeat and yesterday the Union for Change movement announced that it will petition the court today and ask it to declare the election invalid.

The Union for Change will be contesting the results based on a number of irregularities it says it noticed during the election. Sources tell this newspaper the irregularities have to do with "election rigging as the number of votes cast did not tally with the number of people who voted, some ballot papers were marked with a pen instead of a marker and some people voted twice and the fact that the total number of votes changed after counting". There has been no official communication of the specific grounds on which the election will be contested.

The international observers' findings would have helped open the way for the challenge but yesterday's meeting with the press shows that they are being very cautious in their official remarks. Their final findings will be issued in 90 days, they announced yesterday at the meeting at Avani hotel in Barbarons.

Bishop James Wong did not take kindly to this manoeuvre and said that "90 days is too long for the country to wait for the report as people want to know whether the election was free, fair and transparent right now". He added that there were rumours that there could be riots in the country and that there is much tension in the country, something that the Seychelles Interfaith Council (SIFCO) is trying to diffuse.

Judge Bernardin Renaud who was also present at the meeting, said that while it was normal for the observer missions not to declare if the election was free and fair as the matter was subjudice, "unfortunately for the people of Seychelles, this is not good as they want answers".

Mr Renaud also questioned the use of election terminology such as "casting", "polling", "valid vote" as well as who has the authority to declare that a vote is rejected. He said that these words are being used "loosely in our Elections Act and this is serious".

The number of votes rejected totalled 1 062 while the difference in votes between the two candidates was just 193 votes.

Edited by Trn, 22 December 2015 - 21:17.

[Doorn]

Whose is the Victory?

Nichole’s take on …

By N.Tirant

The people have spoken! And a President has been declared and already sworn in! But whose is the victory when a popular incumbent President starts his third mandate endorsed by 31,512 citizens whilst his losing opponent is backed by 31,319 people?
Called a full six months ahead of time,these elections were meant to be a game changer. They were to add the proverbial cherry on the cake of that unity crusade that this President has held so close to his heart ever since he climbed upon that mountain top in 2011 and saw his vision of the New Seychelles.

These polls were supposed to be a general endorsement of his toil at the head of this country, and an acknowledgement of his success in turning around the "beggar bowl basket case" economy that had turned our beautiful islands into the laughing stock of the region. Nicknamed "Napaland" by our own in honour of our empty shelves and suppressed businesses, a chronic foreign exchange shortage permeated our lives, persistently denied by everyone, including himself, as our nation soldiered on pretending that all was well in paradise.

National bankruptcy, announced overnight as the IMF rolled in like an invading force in 2008, came four years after the presidential relay of 2004 and a full two years into the president’s first mandate.

With all that behind us, the economy fixed and booming and the people eternally grateful totheir benevolent leader, these elections were meant to have brought the nation together in this year dedicated to loving Seychelles. Citizens were expected to fully endorse another five years of continuity, stability and progress. After all, as he admitted earlier in the year, he couldn’t lose the elections as the opposition was inexistent.

But like with many theories, the practice often turns out quite differently.

The election game was called in October, and the Electoral Commission obliged; offering the incumbent a practical walkover by fixing elections for 19-21 November – only six weeks later– before changing it to 3-5 December as opposition parties went up in arms.

With six candidates vying for our nation’s top executive position, the population was treated to the closest we’ve ever seen to a real democratic exercise as opposition candidates took the incumbent’s policies and track record apart.

When the long night of election daywas over on 5 December, St Nicholas’ feast day delivered another first to Seychelles. Our Third Republic would have its first-ever second round of ballots as the surefooted president succumbed to the assault from five adversaries who together denied him the 50%+ needed for a first round knockout.

The referee fixed the new round for 16 – 18 December.
With only two players in this ring, the opposition less one threw its combined weight behind their man bent on using the first round’s52% to bring down the incumbent. It was not to be!

The count remained close all the way as citizens huddled over smart phones and computers for news shared by others closer to the action. Our Electoral Commission remained mute as the night wore on – and national television broadcast Christmas song and dance and "Little Steven" tried to convince us to party under the mistletoe.

The close count cut down to the wire and the challenger fell at the last hurdle, tripped by one of severalcountscitizens still speculate over as our so-called constitutional right to access informationremains denied and clouded in a shroud of secrecy.
Even with all the counting done, the parties remained locked in an embrace that would, after much confusion, end with the news of the incumbent’s victory whilst the figures still spoke differently.
The final bell rung, the country remains in awe. Over forty years after politics was blamed for dividing our country, the nation is split down the middle 50/50. Democracy has come full circle, back to the first ever 1967 elections when our tiny voting population of 17,900 registered adults set the first divide in which Seychelles Democratic Party won 8,760 votes and the Seychelles People’s United Party8,621.

That trend would continue in 1970 when 35,917 voters gave the two parties 52.8% and 44.2% of the votes to end at 52.37% and 47.63% in 1974.

Independence came without elections and the 1977 coup d’étatshelvedthem until 1979 when the one-party constitution gave citizens a vote and a choice to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the SPPF-nominated candidate. Standing against himself, President Albert René receiveda staggering 98% of the votesin June 1979, slightly reduced to 92%in 1984, and increased to98% in 1989.

Since the return of multiparty politics, the first set of general elections in 1993brought back the divide. The incumbent SPPF candidate won with 25,627 votes representing 59.5% of the electorate. The party’s score rose to 31,048 votes (66.7%) in 1998 whilst in early elections called in September 2001, that winning score dropped to 27,223 voters or 54.2%.

In the 2006 Presidential polls, the first after he took over as president in 2004, James Michel won with 30,119 votes or 53.73%– a score that increased for the people’s party candidateto 31,966 votes or 55.46% in 2011.The December 2015 early elections have seen his score drop to 31,512 votesor 50.15%.

The opposition, on the other hand, has gained ground over the years. From 17,446 voters or 40.5%voting for the combined opposition in 1993, its score fell to 15,525 or 33.3% of the votes in 1998 as the ‘wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time’ continued to preach reconciliation to deaf ears. In early elections called in September 2001, the opposition’s score rosedramatically to 23,015 votes or 45.8% and continued in 2006 when the combined opposition took 25,940 votes or 46.27%.

After falling marginally in 2011 when the three opposition parties collectively garnered 25,667 votes or 44.54%we have seen an even more dramatic increase in the size of the opposition in these latestelections where 49.85% or 31,319 people voted for change.
With a difference of only 193 people separating the two sides, uniting this deeply divided nation will take much more now than a few choice words about unity thrown out in public places. It will take the acknowledgement by one man alone that half of this country’s citizens voted against him and for a change –in leadership, and even in party and political philosophy and that is something the new head of state must factor into his third and final mandate.

Edited by Trn, 22 December 2015 - 21:34.

[A sad]

Trn ima li šta novo na političkoj sceni Sejšela?

[Doorn]

Trn ima li šta novo na političkoj sceni Sejšela?

Ima. Mogu da pokusaju za 4 godine. Michelu je ovo mislim 3ci i zadnji termin. Ipak su oni Afrika.

[alberto.ascari]

Automatske kamere slikale vuka u Nacionalnom parku Šumava na češko - bavarskoj granici. Uprava parka očekuje da bi mogao za par godina na toj lokaciji da se trajno nastani i stabilizuje čopor vukova.

 

 

 

 

[Doorn]

Vijesti za A sad-a
Ovaj ce da proda sve zivo.

Seychelles President acknowledges that India has been steadily increasing its maritime and security cooperation with Seychelles.

A plot of land for India to build its first naval base in the Indian Ocean region has been allocated by the Seychelles government in the Assumption Island.

Lifting the veil of secrecy around the planned project, President James Michel of the Seychelles told The Hindu: “This is a joint project between India and Seychelles involving our two Defence Forces in enhancing our mutual security along our western seaboard. Seychelles is absolutely committed to the project.”

Seychelles is expecting India’s evaluation team to visit the spot soon, President Michel said. The project has acquired significance following China acquiring its first African naval base in Djibouti in November. Once ready, the naval base to be built by the defence forces of India, and Seychelles will help India exercise greater control over the Indian Ocean’s western region all the way to the piracy-prone eastern African coastline.

The base will be one of the major staging posts for a large maritime security network that India is setting up with the help of the various Indian Ocean region partner countries.

Apart from the naval base, India is set to acquire a fully operational coastal radar system (CRS) based in Seychelles from March 2016, Mr. Michel said. The CRS will provide India with the ability to gather intelligence and assist in surveillance operations of the vital energy lanes near Seychelles.

“The Maritime Radar Project is a major development for Seychelles’ and India’s mutual desire for security in the field of maritime security,” said President Michel, who was sworn in for a third term on December 20.

Fighting piracy
Security operation in the Indian Ocean region will also be helped by the leadership role that Seychelles has secured for itself in the Contact Group for Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS), which will hold its first meeting in Mumbai on January 31, 2016. “Both India and Seychelles have a vested interest in securitising the Western Indian Ocean. We have forged a partnership that has gone a fair distance in eradicating the scourge of Somalia-based piracy as well as other maritime security issues.”

Mr. Michel acknowledged that India has been steadily increasing its maritime and security cooperation with Seychelles and that a new patrol vessel from India will be handed over to Seychelles in mid-January 2016.

“These initiatives have greatly helped our security environment,” said the President who visited New Delhi in August. He had been persistent in building a security network to prevent piracy, arms trafficking and financial fraud in the banks of the Indian Ocean region islands.

India, with its strong intelligence network, will also be helpful in maritime law enforcement by Seychelles, he added. While declaring support for India’s maritime security plans, President Michel pointed out that small nations are equally important in the contemporary world order and need to be taken seriously for the sake of preserving the security and order.

Sjecam se da su Ameri imali radarski sistem na La Misere. Kad su se pokupili i otisli ovaj vladajuci sljam tu zemlju proda Khalifi bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyanu. On napravi palatu na vrhu La Misere sa pogledom na cijelo ostrvo. Bilo je i frke sa izgradnjom.
I danas se svi groze kad gledaju gore na Kalifa.





Meni Kalifa toliko i ne smeta. Vise mi smetaju novi hoteli na plazama koje su nekad bile idila, a danas ih krasi uzasni beton hotela raznih Ruskih tajkuna.

Edited by Trn, 10 February 2016 - 16:17.

[angelia]

Opet "Polarni Vortex" 

 

A da je hladno, usi otpadaju - gde su te plaze?

 

Inace, neki ljudi imali odlicno planiranje, bas kao i ja - jer sam bas u vreme kad je smrzavanje i sneg poceo krenula u obavljanje raznih zadataka... genijalac. Sva sreca ja sam se vratila kuci uredno 

 

 

http://www.nbcphilad...-368717131.html

[ControlFreak]

Kod mene 30, svi se zale da je prerano...ne zelimo 30, mozda do 25...

Edited by ControlFreak, 14 February 2016 - 00:47.

[angelia]

Daj podelite malo... ovde -10

[Denis Jasharevic]

Daj podelite malo... ovde -10

 

Shto ne kazesh, uzmi pola slobodno ....