Specially elected MPs are unacceptable

That onerous task fell to Nasha, the Minister of Presidential Affairs. And so this week, she found herself defending the indefensible. She is trying to prop up the empty and unsustainable and explaining the sheer twist in logic at the heart of the idea of doubling the number of nominated MPs.

Nasha is a reasonable person. She is one of the ministers who apply logic and sense when a policy does not work. That is why it is painful to watch this figure of independent thought being used as a vessel of an illogical idea. The system of specially elected MPs or any political officer for that matter has never made sense to those steeped in democratic practice. For an individual or even a party to have the ability to find whoever they headhunt and put in a Parliament made up of people voted in by the nation flies in the face of democratic ideals.