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Sierra Leone’s Constitutional Amendment: Why We Should Not Put the Cart Before the Horse
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The 1991 Constitution already recognizes the importance of population in determining parliamentary representation.
It also provides for periodic constituency reviews and specifically recognizes the relevance of a population census to such reviews.
That is precisely why I believe we should first complete the census and consequential boundary work before locking ourselves into a new constitutional electoral model.
That brings me to what I consider the most important democratic question:Who ultimately controls the representative—the voter or the political party?
Only then should we make permanent constitutional choices about the future structure of parliamentary representation.