The coming and going to Riverwalk, to the home of the leader of the Labor Party (PTr), Navin Ramgoolam, with the aim of concretizing an alliance with the PMSD and the MMM, undoubtedly delayed the mobilization efforts of the opposition parliamentary in view of May 1st. Once the decision was made to exclude the PMSD from the alliance, the PTr-MMM and the New Democrats quickly took the next step by organizing mobilization meetings in the different constituencies of the country.
Milan Meetarbhan points out that the efforts of the alliance leaders to seal an electoral agreement with the PMSD have significantly delayed the start of the organization of the parliamentary opposition meeting, which means that the opposition alliance will ultimately only have a mobilization campaign lasting only two weeks, with much fewer resources than the regime in place, which began its campaign months ago. “So it’s already an unequal fight, given that the means available to the two alliances are unequal,” he said.
Furthermore, although public attention seems focused on the mobilization duel between the opposition and the government on May 1, Milan Meetarbhan puts forward a different perspective. According to him, the outcome of this battle of the crowds will not necessarily be decisive for the upcoming general elections. “For the opposition, the objective is to reveal the broad outlines of its campaign and to ensure that its message is clear and well understood,” he explains. “On the other hand, for the ruling party, the priority is to win the battle of mobilization, by fully exploiting the financial and organizational resources at its disposal,” he adds.
