Bidding Trump Farewell?
Monday, November 09, 2020
The American public has been gripped in a national civic exercise to express their will.
The USA presidential election is a very complicated exercise that makes your head spin trying to understand it. It is not like the Ivory Coast presidential election where the magical Allessane Outtara proved to be more popular than Jesus Christ to the point where the aggregated percentage win surpassed the 100% mark.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...