Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Kenya: PNU a Sure Sign That Coalition Politics Has Come of Age - AllAfrica.com

Kivutha Kibwana

THESE ARE EXCITING times for our nation. Our immature democracy is maturing. The surest mark of this is the Party of National Integrity coalition.

Who would have got thought that respective political parties with distinct personal identities would unify to work together only 15 old age after the coming of multi-party political relation in Kenya?

Coalition political relation is an thought whose clip have come. It have got grown with the gap up of our democratic space in the past five years, to a point where many different political groupings now happen democratic channels of look in the political process.

It is a great twenty-four hours when 18 distinct political parties can pool their abilities and political acumen to construct one big political party brimming with potential.

Because Republic Of Kenya is an baby in the expansive strategy of alliance politics, it is possible for those who have yet to attain the same phase of political adulthood to error the conversations going on within PNU for turmoil.

TRUTH be TOLD, THESE Conversations are a cause for celebration. Without duologue and without vigorous debate, there can be no freedom of expression, and therefore no democracy.

The political space should not be about retaining one's silence and cernuous of heads.

All of us should be concerned about loud silences in the political arena, as it signifies the outgrowth of dictatorship.

With the public treatments going on within PNU, Republic Of Kenya can now proudly say: We are talking to each other.

Coalition political relation may be the medical specialty that Kenyan needs. It's no secret that tribalism have plagued Republic Of Kenya for generations.

The illustration our leadership in PNU are setting volition drip down and influence all of our interactions with each other. What the PNU is saying to us is, we don't have got to lose our personal identity and our independent idea to work with others to accomplish a common goal.

When groupings with different political and societal personal identities are ready to share powerfulness by accommodating the positions and values of others, democracy is well served.

The great thing about alliance political relation is that it is not about personalities. If PNU confederation "loves Kibaki", the world is that this great alliance loves what President Kibaki stand ups for, the work of development that he have got began and will assuredly complete in the five old age to come.

A PNU alliance authorities will better reflect the popular sentiment of the Kenyan electorate and stand for the people better by removing political relation from the soiled clinches of folk and ethnicity that many person political parties have come up up to represent.

With PNU we see instead cooperation with a common objective. Consensus based political relation may be near to our roots than was perhaps apparent at first blush.

There is no demand for political political political parties within the PNU confederation to "forget their separate personal identities in order to hammer a new and purposive political party" as Professor William Ochieng' proposes in his commentary yesterday.

This would be a grave mistake.

Purposive political parties are not new to Kenya. We have got seen quite a few political parties with quite an path of purposes. But a alliance is a wholly different animal.

The intent of a alliance is not to absorb other parties. A alliance is a fluid tool that should be flexible adequate to be moulded to the demands of the state to carry through the demands of a growth democracy.

A alliance IS NOT STATIC. IF political political political parties within PNU make up one's mind to canvass alone in 2012, the alliance will not be weakened, rather, it will have got learned from those parties and evolved.

The words spoken by the Grecian philosopher Epictetus in A.D. 200 still peal true today. "No great thing is created suddenly".

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What we are witnessing here is history in the making. The acknowledgment that argument and treatment among assorted political parties in a alliance is positive volition come.

Our PNU alliance will learn us lessons on the political relation of adjustment and power-sharing. Then we can truly state that we have got come up of age.

Prof Kibwana is the curate for Lands

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