Berenger for President in MMM-MSM alliance

Talks between the MMM and the MSM are still on, despite denials from the MMM leadership.

The latest we heard is the MSM’s offer to put MMM leader Paul Berenger as President after the next General Elections.

The elections are not due until next year, but electoral alliances are the talk of the day in Port Louis city.

While sources are saying an MMM-MSM alliance is already sealed, we can say it is not final.

The MSM is still pondering on the MMM’s offer for a dissolution of the Parliament soon, and an alliance after the polls.

But sources told WFTV the MMM will have a hard time in the elections if it were to contest alone against the Labour Party and the PMSD.

However, the MSM is offering the presidency to Berenger as a token of appreciation if the latter agrees for an MMM-MSM alliance.

Nevertheless, a source within the MMM told WFTV the party would do better to go on its own, with Madan Dulloo as PM candidate.

Dulloo is known as the architect who patched the MMM together in the October 1982 crisis the party faced.

He was then offered the post of deputy PM by Sir Aneerood Jugnauth but refused.

Dulloo then mitigated the fall of the Jugnauth government in March 1983, backing the latter as PM.