PORT LOUIS, 15 February, 2021 (TON): "Democracy does not work in the island nation”, said the opposition leader Arvin Boolell and Labor MP while the thousands of demonstrators descended on the Mauritian capital demanding the government to resign.

Protesters came from all political beliefs and included various opposition parties, all demanding change.

Thousands of Mauritians responded to the call of opposition parties alleging corruption and fraud by the government, although the protest was not much as the last Augusts’ one when 25,000 people descended against the handling and lack of transparency after a  massive oil spill on the capital Port Louis.

He said, “Corruption and drugs are thorny issues, which the government is unfortunately unable to resolve,"

"Democracy does not work as it should, there is a problem with what is called the tyranny of numbers in parliament, and there is the dimension of politics which has become the tool of the executive.

"So there are a lot of things wrong and people are fed up."

When the Minister of Foreign Affairs resigned on 6 February, the opposition leader criticized the dysfunction of the country’s institutions.

Boolell said, "If I take the words of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, who has just submitted his resignation and who was also the general secretary of the Prime Minister's party, he said that the situation is extremely serious, that there is a dysfunction, that the institutions are padlocked and that the Prime Minister lives in an ivory tower, he is not accessible."

"The wish of the electorate is for Mauritius to return to what it has always been a model of development, of peaceful co-existence, a model of ecology where life is good," the opposition leader said.

French-owned state has been going through disappointment because of the Prime Minister and the government that has failed miserably.