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Hollande's election progressive - Chitala

Hollande's election progressive - Chitala
By Allan Mulenga
Thu 10 May 2012, 17:40 CAT

DR Mbita Chitala has asked newly-elected France President Francois Hollande to come up with progressive policies towards African countries.

Commenting on Hollande's election as France's first left-wing President in 17 years, Dr Chitala, who is Zambia Research Foundation executive director, said the victory was a clear testimony that social democracy was on the rise.

"The election of Francois Hollande as France President is obviously very progressive. You can see that social democracy is on the rise.

They had this issue of austerity and making people suffer should not be the function of governments and states. The purpose of governments is to make people happy and that is why even the conservatives in London, United Kingdom during the last elections lost by more than 400 councils and Labour Party, which has a social programme was elected," he said.

Dr Chitala, who is also former ambassador to Libya, said Nicolas Sarkozy was rejected because of bad policies, particularly towards African countries.

"As you know he was a person who even caused the invasion of Libya, where I was last ambassador in a sphere where the African Union was seeking for diplomatic solutions. For us really it is good for Africa and we also hope that Mr Hollande can come up with progressive policies towards Africa. He has not yet announced what programmes he has for Africa particularly in Franco-Africa where they had used troops in Ivory Coast and we need to know," he said.

Dr Chitala hoped that President Hollande would be supportive to the AU and the entire continent.

"By and large, the election of President Francois Hollande appears to be a progressive thing. We are looking forward that he will be much more supportive of the African Union and formulate programmes which powerful countries are involved in," said Dr Chitala.

Labels: ELECTIONS, FRANCE, MBITA CHITALA, SOCIALISM

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