Of constitution manoeuvres and spontaneity

Gatete views is one of the most popular blog sites on Rwanda’s politics. Thierry Gatete, its blogger, recently published a fascinating review of the constitution amending process in a piece he tilted “No ‘Goodluck Jonathan for Rwanda?” In it, he tears apart some of the arguments that were used to undermine or to dismiss altogether the process as inauthentic “manoeuvring,” an exercise that “isn’t real – or democratic, because it did not emanate spontaneously from the people.”
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Lonzen Rugira