The economic situation – with the weak rupee and the government’s inability to deal with the external shocks in textile and sugar sectors according to the MMM leader – is not the only reason for anxiety. The social side is also a subject of fear for Paul Bérenger who castigated the way health and education sectors are being managed.

Pravind Jugnauth did not spare the government either in Chemin-Grenier. He criticised the promises made during the electoral campaign by the Social Alliance that have not been kept. The rise in prices, the National Residential Property Tax and the education reform were at the centre of the MSM preoccupations last Friday. The leader, who said he was “ready to start ruling the country whenever necessary”, was presented as the country’s next PM.

Even though the trade unionists present in Quatre-Bornes agreed with the main ideas of the opposition leaders, they insisted that the latter were “accomplices” of the government. Against a government that does not have any vision, the opposition is in no way seen as a good alternative. If the government does not “rectify its right-wing policy”, unionists intend to go on with their campaigns of clarification throughout the country and hope the population will support them in their “revolution to reverse the present situation”.