The presidential system of government currently operates in
Nigeria encourages wastage, abuse of office and corruption. The trio:
executive, legislature and judiciary serve as the black holes of the
nation.
Can we,perhaps, embrace the parliamentary democracy operated in the Federal Republic of Germany?
There is a president who performs mere ceremonial
functions. Though he presents the Chancellor to the
Bundestag(parliament) for election.
The chancellor is elected by the lower legislative chamber(
the Bundestag) via a qualified majority system of voting in the
parliament. The Chancellor could be removed from office through a "
constructive and not sheer vote of no confidence". The Chancellor draws
his cabinet members from the Bundestag(the lower chamber of the
parliament).
Meaning that, just as in the UK parliament; though with a
slight difference, members of cabinet of the Chancellor are also members
of the parliament who are accountable to the parliament. What does this
translate into? It means that the same people voted into the parliament
by the voters in their respective constituencies are the ones serving
the people as government ministers at the same time. So, the needs of
the people in the constituencies are well prioritised and managed at the
centre.
The Bundestag. It is the lower legislative house of
Germany. Its members are elected by German voters in a double voting
system. At first, 299 representatives are elected into the lower house
by voters in their constituencies based on the credibilities of the
candidates. In the second vote, the voters elect another 299
representatives from the lists presented to them by political parties
with representations in the Bundestag.
This gives rise to each voter
having two(2) voting rights.That makes it a total number of 598 elected
members of the lower chamber directly elected by the constituents.
The Bundesrat, on the other hand, is the upper legislative
house whose members are not elected in a direct election by the voters
but appointed by the state cabinets. Members of the upper chamber are
members of the state cabinets and are appointed into the Bundesrat from
within the state cabinets.
They can be removed at any time by the state
cabinets. Members of the upper chamber usually perfom oversight
functions in literal term. However, the number of appointed members of
the upper house is based on the population size, inter alia, of each
state or land or region in Germany.
Let the Nigeria ruling class and the bourgeoisie refrain
from this wasteful enterprise they named "presidential system of
government".
Ire ooo!
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