- People unajua NCCR wanatukumbusha umuhimu wa kuondoa utitiri wa Vyama vingi hewa vya Upinzani tulivyonavyo. Wakati umefika ni muhimu through katiba mpya tukavunja vyama vyote vya Upinzani na kubaki na Vitatu tu, CCM, Chadema na Independent Party.
- I mean we cant afford as a Nation kuendelea na this foolishness of mediocre represantation ambapo Wenyeviti wa Vyama vetu vya siasa wanakuwa Semi-Gods through our Ruzuku but no record of anything worthy to us the people of what they are doing with our money zaidi ya kugombana na kufukuzana ambayo ni furaha ya CCM.
- People we need to take our Nation back, from the Mbatias and the likes na ni muhimu tukawa na Independent Party kuondoa ufalme wa Wenyeviti wa Vyama vikuu Viwili tu vya siasa under new katiba.
William @..NYC,USA: Mutuz Le Baharia Big Show!
Willium Malecela,
I must admit that the multi-party system comes with problems of it own – especially the huge cost the government incurs in financing the parties, most of which exist only on paper (husband & wife parties), and have never won even a Councillor election.
The solution to this problem is very simple. Rather than abolish the parties and institute a two-party system, stricter measures should be set down for parties to qualify for state funding. For instance, parties would need to have functional secretariats in at least 18 states of the Union Government or incase after Katiba mpya kama tutakuwa na serikali za majimbo (federal system) and produce at least one individual holding elective office in at least half of these Regions/states. With this sort of framework in place, all the ‘face-me-I-face-you' parties would fizzle out and only the serious parties would survive. Indeed, the current norm of state funding for political parties could even be jettisoned altogether!
We must also understand that
three-partyism is not the panacea to a ‘one party state' which we fear the CCM dominance could lead to. Indeed, the CCM supposed dominance of the political space is a function of the defective electoral process, and the party's awesome rigging machinery which is probably the largest and most ruthless in the history of mankind. If we manage to achieve electoral reform, and future elections become more credible, free and fair, the CCM macabre hegemony will whittle away – making way for other parties with more popular candidates. You don't need a two-party system to achieve this; all you need is free and fair elections.
Another problem is that the two or three party system as it is used in the US for example are identified with an ideology. Democrats with liberalism, higher taxes for middle class/rich people. pro-immigration, pro-abortion, pro-anything lol, then the Republicans who are basically the opposite. This is usually not the case.
But anyways most of the Tanzanian parties are not associated with any political ideology and neither are they committed to the furtherance of any issue except stealing as much as they can, although it could be pointed out that they are divided across ethnic lines.