A more pluralist political system, representative of the nation’s social diversity and accommodative to the politics of bargain with give-and-take, is very often preferable. Can Kenya continue to ignore the urgent need to abandon this presidential system for a parliamentary democracy? It is because the presidential system operates on a winner take all politics. Because electing a president with such enormous political power is antithetical to having an effective parliamentary political system. We want to create the Minority Leader position as a sinecure, perhaps to quieten opposition and not to strengthen parliamentary democracy.

Source: Daily Nation April 23, 2023 20:07 UTC