Two Years On: MPs Deliver Mixed Verdict on 60-0 Government

Two years after the Alliance du Changement won every single seat in the Mauritian National Assembly, a feat that produced the now-famous 60-0 result, parliamentarians from within and outside the governing coalition are offering sharply different views on how the government has performed against its own promises.

Farhad Aumeer, a Member of Parliament for the Parti Travailliste (PTr), the dominant partner in the alliance, acknowledged that progress has been made in several areas but was careful to frame shortfalls within the context of economic pressures. He pointed to global headwinds and international constraints as factors that have limited the government's room to manoeuvre since taking office in November 2024.

Ram Etwareea, MP for the Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM), one of the smaller parties that formed part of the original alliance before political tensions began to surface, offered a less forgiving assessment. While defending certain government initiatives, he said the overall record falls short of what voters were promised when the coalition swept to its landslide victory.

The 60-0 result was itself unprecedented in Mauritian political history. Under the country's first-past-the-post electoral system, combined with the best-loser mechanism, the opposition was left without a single elected seat in parliament, creating an unusual situation in which scrutiny of the government has fallen largely to independent voices, the press and to dissenters within the alliance itself.

That internal pressure has grown over the past year. Tensions between coalition partners over cabinet positions, policy direction and the pace of reform have become increasingly visible, raising questions about whether the unity that defined the 2024 campaign can hold through a full five-year term.

On the economy, the government inherited a fiscal deficit and a cost-of-living crisis that have not been fully resolved. Food prices in particular have remained a pressure point for ordinary Mauritians, with some staple goods seeing significant price swings in local markets in 2026. Infrastructure projects and social transfer reforms have moved forward, but critics argue delivery has been slower than the electoral programme suggested.

On institutional reform, one of the alliance's key campaign themes, progress has been more visible in rhetoric than in legislation. Anti-corruption commitments, judicial independence and police accountability have all been raised in parliament but have yet to produce the structural changes many reformers were hoping for.

What this means: For voters who backed the 60-0 coalition expecting rapid and transformative change, the two-year mark is a natural moment of reckoning. The divided verdict from MPs reflects a broader national conversation about whether a government with no parliamentary opposition and an enormous mandate has used that position boldly enough. With three years remaining in the term, the pressure is now on the alliance to show measurable results on the promises that defined one of the most dramatic election victories in Mauritius's post-independence history.

Source: Le Defi Media