A “gift” to civil servants

The current election campaign in the country will take a major step tomorrow (Sunday, June 23) when the government will host a mega expo for the country’s civil servants at the Swami Vivekananda Convention Centre in Pailles.

It is clear that in this campaign, carefully designed by the political strategists of the SunTrust Fund, government money, and taxpayers’ money, will be used on behalf of the Radical Socialist Movement (MSM) and its allies. In addition to the army of senior citizens, the approximately 80,000 employees of the central government and numerous state institutions constitute the second part of the electorate that the Orange Party is courting.

However, while benefiting like other Mauritians from various “gifts” from the Treasury, civil servants are also concerned about the constant erosion of their purchasing power due to the continued depreciation of the rupee; about the impact of drugs on their children and their future in the country.

Part of the population, including state employees, is increasingly convinced that the future of children is more secure abroad than in Mauritius. This is the depressive factor that the MSM needs to fight. Tomorrow we will know how the Prime Minister will reassure the civil servants that the future awaits them and their children in glorious times. He must convince them that Mauritius is not only an El Dorado for South African and European billionaires, Bangladeshi, Nepalese, Indian and Madagascar workers, and fake students and tourists from Africa. But this country belongs first and foremost to Mauritians.

In addition, the public service sector will also feel deeply dissatisfied due to the increase in wages and minimum incomes carefully planned by the government. In fact, state agency staff who have studied hard, worked for a certain number of years, and accumulated a certain amount of experience in their work also want to know how newcomers can enjoy salary treatment closer to that of old employees. Private sector employees are also very uneasy about this issue.

The MSM must announce tomorrow how it intends to resolve this issue. Most certainly, Pravind Kumar Jugnauth (PKJ) will announce a major salary revision that will benefit civil servants with a subsequent wage increase. Payroll.

If the PKJ announces a massive pay rise in Pailles tomorrow with retroactive effect, the roof of the meeting room will probably burst with thunderous applause. As the best organized and most effective party in communication, the MSM is likely to reserve the biggest spectacle for tomorrow’s civil servants.

We are also talking about the “atomic bomb”, the 14th month. The timing of the announcement of this revolutionary measure, which aims to provide workers with two months of year-end bonuses in addition to their normal wages, is still to be determined. Tactically, after the batch of gifts scheduled for tomorrow, PKR is likely to play the 14th month card in the later stages of the campaign, which officially begins after the dissolution of Parliament. This, in turn, will deal a fatal blow to the opposition.

Of course, paying the 14th month salary will cause huge problems for the private sector and will cause heated debates among the “BroadCast Unitedlectuals”, but the MSM is above all concerned with staying in power. Schemes can always be devised to help private companies pay for the 14th month. Remember Covid-19. After all, the Indian Justice Party, known for its devastating bellicosity, is far from being as suicidal as Britain’s saint Sunak, blissfully allowing itself to be led to the electoral slaughterhouse.