The Mouvman Calls For Major Constitutional Revisions Consistent with the Rasinist-Creed

June 27, 2010

VIA FACSIMILE TRANSMISSION

Attorney General

National House

Victoria, Mahe

Republic of Seychelles

Re: Comments on Constitutional Revision

Attorney General:

This letter is to provide you with Mouvman Seselwa Rasin’s (“The Mouvman”) basic poison regarding the proposed revisions to the current Constitution of the Republic of Seychelles (“Constitution”).

It is the Mouvman’s position that the Constitution requires major revisions which have not been addressed by the report submitted by the Constitutional Review Commission (“Commission”), and as described in the Constitutional Review Report submitted by the Commission on December 21st 2009. In general, the Commission recommended mere tinkering to the Constitution when a more thorough review and rewrite is appropriate.

As a point of basic principle The Mouvman seeks changes to the Constitution to implement the founding principle of our nation of Sesel Pou Seselwa. This principle requires amendments to the Constitution to implement the provisions of the Rasin-ist Creed which describes what constitutes Sesel Pou Seselwa. A copy of the Rasin-ist Creed is enclosed herewith and incorporated herein by this reference as though fully set forth here.

Of particular concern is the provision on citizenship under Chapter II article 7 of the Constitution. The Commission retains the current system of granting citizenship by birth rather than by ancestry. This is inconsistent with the notions of Sesel Pou Seselwa. It also ignores the wholesale abuses of the naturalization process that have been wholly inconsistent with the founding principle of our motherland and currently threatens Seselwa Rasin ownership and control over their own motherland.

The Mouvman also is concerned with the claw back of our substantial rights in Article 19 and other parts of the Constitution. The Constitution and the Commission take the position that our fundamental rights belong to the government in power to determine practically as it sees fit. It is the Mouvman’s position that our fundamental rights belong to us Seselwa Rasin first and foremost, and that only those rights we see fit to transfer to the government no longer are ours to determine and to exercise.

A rewrite of the Constitution must be approached from this basic philosophical position – that we Seselwa Rasin, individually, are the masters of our country and not the government in power. If we do not specifically give the government power, the government in power should not have it – not the other way around.

The Mouvman also believes that a parliamentary system rather than the current presidential system, which allows one party with a minority of support from the Seselwa Rasin people, to control virtually all political power in the Rasin homeland. A parliamentary system will better represent the politically diverse views in our motherland.

The President under such a parliamentary system will be a ceremonial post filled by a respected and accepted individual and will represent the keel or guiding person of our motherland. This will help to defuse power and stop it from being concentrated in a single hand where it has historically been abused and will likely be abused in the future.

As a result, The Mouvman calls for a representative Constitutional Revision Commission that can tackle the extensive revisions to the Constitution that is required to make our system more democratic and representative of the divergent views in our homeland.

Sincerely,

Leonard Francis Gill

Leadership Committee