The Pan-African Parliament has only itself to blame for The Third Umpire’s criticism (June 3).
One problem lies with the indirect election of the MPs having too weak a link to voters. While SA’s electoral system also has problems, direct elections are far better. The Pan-African Parliament, inaugurated in 2004, was supposed to move to direct elections after five years, so this reform is overdue by a decade...
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