A Sad Story to Tell

When I wrote the previous post I was hoping that what I have predicted would not happen. Yet unfortunately the things I feared about was welcomed by the recent council elections which was held for the first time in the Maldives. Firstly my impression was that councils were not that necessary at this stage in the Maldives, as it is not some silly game in which we could try trial and error method. Maldives is yet at a very early stage of transforming into a modern society and the available  and willing human resource is not capable of such tasks. On the other hand the Maldivian citizens are new to true freedom of voting and the present results have shown that they are still not even at the adolescent stage in understanding importance and the value of the voting right.

In many islands people who were educated and capable were left behind and people voted for party interest without taking their own freedom and right of voting into consideration. People have hardly thought of the responsibility they were offering the young and uneducated folks who have just reached 18, according to final results of the council elections in some islands. Some have already started showing their childish acts like taking photos seated at the island office and posting on face-book , though they have officially not been assigned the tasks yet.

As I have predicted even in Male' the capital city where most people are supposed to be with more awareness they voted in favour of film actors while the educated people were just ignored. It is no harm in choosing a film actor who is well-educated but the one an only educated film actor in Maldives does not live in Maldives any more. Thus the people in Male' voted for two film actors which means even one of them could be the Mayor as well. Hence we can imagine the future they can show with lack of background, education and experience.

This is certainly a sad story for the future of the country.Hope that things somehow become favourable for the country. Politics is essential for the growth of a nation but every small family cannot establish a system like what we have in most developed western countries. It may not even be suitable.