JEAN GASPARD NTOUTOUME AYI ADMIRES DEMOCRACY, BUT UNFORTUNATELY FROM AFAR! JEAN GASPARD NTOUTOUME AYI ADMIRE LA DÉMOCRATIE, MAIS MALHEUREUSEMENT DE LOIN !
English version The day after the US midterm elections, Akanda MP Jean Gaspard Ntoutoume Ayi hailed "the true face of the presidential system" on social media. A Gabonese lawmaker watches and admires democracy… but sadly, from afar. Today, Jean Gaspard Ntoutoume Ayi's Facebook feed filled up with American electoral maps. Senate, House of Representatives: the MP shared the results published by the Associated Press, along with a quote attributed to Gandhi about the inevitable fall of tyrants. And one sentence, short but loaded with meaning: "From now on, we are going to see in the USA the true face of the presidential system." What the MP really admires The message does not celebrate a president. It celebrates a counterweight. In the United States, the head of state controls the executive branch, but must deal with a separately elected Congress, part of which is renewed every two years. The midterms are precisely the moment when voters can punish the White House ...
