Mauritius: Milan Meetarbhan - "It's unfortunate that a challenge to the conduct of a nationwide general election is not going to be heard by the Supreme Court"

interview

An apparent calm seems to have come back to the island. The electoral petitions filed by opposition parties are taking centre stage and Roshi Bhadain's challenge to the conduct of the last general election was quashed. We sit down with Milan Meetarbhan, constitutional lawyer and political observer about his take on these events.

If you look at the political situation today, you will notice that we went through a lot of turbulence with three protests, two of which were impressive and then we reached a period of calm, almost serenity. Is that your observation too?

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