The cut / Armand Snijders
Our unsurpassed ex-minister Bronto of BIZA has since unashamolic since his former love, and with the approval of Chan the government door, all the time for things other than bizabusiness. So with his halal politics he tries to blacken his former partner and his vassals and paint as false and unreliable, but that makes little impression.
Fortunately for Bronto there are elections coming again and he can try to make the following of Pertjajah Luhur (PL) – or what is left of it – to warm up with all kinds of promises that you know in advance that they are unfeasible. Like every party leader, he presents himself as the savior of the people, who can push Suriname to great heights.
Even to such heights where thanks to the upcoming oiltree A real oil tree will grow, of which every Surinamese will soon be able to pick no less than ten thousand US dollars, provided PL will come back to the power center again. That promise sounds even more unbelievable than the ‘royalty for everyone’, with which Chan already holds up the people a big sausage. And that while the butcher is not going to slaughter the meat for that.
By the way, I do not say that that sausage will never come, but the people will only be able to benefit from that after the 2030 elections and not already, as Chan jokes. Because how does he want to pay for that, while currently a lot of stagnation because the state treasury is empty and for that reason people have been waiting for child benefits for two years or more. Or the priorities of the government are wrong.
Don’t be fooled by all the sweet talks and lies, base your choice on 25 May on demonstrable and proven facts and performance! Bronto of course has very little to show off, especially with regard to his performance and that of PL in this government.
He therefore has to lure voters in other ways. And for that he uses his supermarket plus to go, diagonally opposite the American embassy. I say ‘his supermarket’ but to be honest, I don’t know if that is also the case; That case was open when he was a minister and was reportedly funded by him.
It fits within the family tradition to open all kinds of things. Dad Paul once had one of his treasures run a sandwich shop on the Leysweg, who, however, was closed over time by the Public Health Care Office. The same happened with the soup kitchen for poor people who set up Paul next to the tax office on Van Sommelsdijkstraat. So it was closed again in no time.
The supermarket of son also houses a place where you can buy sandwiches and other delicacies. There are no complaints about that so far, he has apparently learned from the unsanitary mistakes of his father. My wife occasionally comes to Plus to Go if they offer some goods that are normally at Foodbasket on offer.
The business is popular in Noord (I would almost say more popular than Bronto itself. However, that is faint so I don’t do that) and the vice -chairman of PL makes smart use of it. From the plastic bags that you get at the cash register, he looks at you laughing under the slogan ‘Suriname it is now or never!’ What is now or never, we can guess at that. But he will mean that we all have to vote for him.
However, the plastic bag raises the necessary questions. ‘SG Bronto Somohardjo, PL aspiring party leader’ is written on it. So you can deduce from that that Bronto is not a party leader at all! He is apparently still apprenticed as a beginner – which means ‘aspiring’ and still has to learn a lot. That also explains why he as a minister failed.
He apparently still has to go through the party’s ballot committee to possibly get rid of that ‘prospective’. Then it is very premature to blow so high off the tower and spend so much money for bags to promote yourself. Provided that ‘prospective’ thing is of course for the show and everything is already in jugs and jugs for Bronto. That is actually more obvious, since the party is his father. And that definitely everything.
“At the NDP, everyone is so brainwashed that they do not want to recognize the truth”
Ann Sadi from the NDP has devised a different method to persuade Surinamese to choose her: she has distributed massive calendars to which she stares at you. Especially in the mosques she handed out the ‘gift’, but I have not heard from anyone that they have hung the gesture at home. My other half, for example, used it (once) to cut down chicken legs. “Then it would have helped me,” was her argument.
Ann, by the way, is – entirely in line with what her party does – to historical falsification. Because the list of National Holidays says ‘Day of Revolution’ on 25 February, while it has been canceled by Chan – completely rightly so -. But yes, at the NDP everyone is so brainwashed that they do not want to face the truth.
If you keep telling that something is like that – while the opposite is clearly proven – then you will believe it yourself. In this case the innocence of DESI on the December murders, about which this newspaper had written a confronting commentary (‘hypocritical NDP’) last week and to which the purple party responded sharply via a letter. It would be “a politically colored attack on our party” beyond bias. “
I could not suppress a sincere laughter when it was stated that ‘the NDP and former president Desi have always stood for an independent judiciary and a fair judicial process. “Although President Bouterse had every opportunity to do so, he never intervened in the process and let it go.”
Are they really so stupid in Ocer that they don’t even know their own recent history? Or did the Selfamnestia law that had been stolen by the National Assembly on 12 April 2012 was not from the tube of Desi and the NDP?
As far as I am concerned, the NDP is wrong and the approval of the 1980 coup that has brought a lot of misery is unacceptable. I think that Chan immediately made a line through the ‘Day of Liberation and Renovation’, as this day was set ten years earlier by his predecessor, as a national day off. Ann apparently has difficulty with that and she announced that on her boring calendar too. Where things are also not mentioned that belong there, such as Javanese New Year, which falls on 26 June this year.
A month earlier, ie on 25 May, Surinamese can choose on the basis of cool sausages of the VHP, the forged calendar and the Historfaling of the NDP or the environmentally unfriendly bags of PL. And there will be a lot more Doucechtjes from other candidates, I can assure you.
But I would go for the candidate who is reliable and has a genuine story. Those candidates are very rare and that will probably be looking for a needle in the haystack.
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