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Bermuda: Due Process

Thursday, May 15th, 2008 @ 13:27 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: Bermuda
Topics:: Ideas, Cyber-Activism, Governance, Politics
Languages:: English

Blogging from Bermuda, Vexed Bermoothes says that the fact “that changes to the Parliamentary Election Act could be proposed without structured involvement of all political parties, and then be provided solely to the political incumbent…risks attracting accusations of favoritism”, while Politics.bm adds: “When the public and other political organisations are kept in the dark…you have a process which is illegitimate and politically poisoned from the start.”

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