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Society
Housing
Provide housing for the most vulnerable.
- Enshrine the right to housing in the Constitution.
- Reduce the deposit for NHDC housing to zero.
- Audit unoccupied social housing units.
- Increase the construction of social housing.
- Establish a housing savings plan from birth.
Health
Provide quality healthcare for all and develop Mauritius as a hub for medical tourism.
- Conduct an audit of hospital equipment and strengthen maintenance teams to ensure optimal functioning.
- Increase the capacity of medical and paramedical training programs.
Sport
Encourage regular sports practice and improve athletes’ performance in international competitions.
- Establish a plan for maintaining sports infrastructure in towns and villages.
- Significantly increase funding for sports federations.
- Organize group sports activities to encourage Mauritians to engage in physical activity.
- Launch regular campaigns to raise awareness of the benefits of sports and physical activity.
Fight Against Drugs
Reduce the use of hard drugs and alleviate pressure on cannabis consumers.
- Decriminalize recreational and medical cannabis use.
- Adopt a rehabilitative approach rather than a punitive one for drug users.
- Increase police resources to combat drug trafficking.
- Impose stricter penalties on police officers complicit in drug trafficking.
- Pass legislation on political party financing to prevent drug money laundering.
Equal Opportunity
Eliminate gender and community discrimination in employment.
- Establish an Equality Commission to investigate discrimination cases and impose sanctions on employers who fail to respect equal employment rights.
Economy
Purchasing Power
Support purchasing power and curb the depreciation of the rupee.
- Rigorous management of public spending to minimize waste.
- Increase local production to reduce dependence on imports and strengthen the national economy.
Public Debt
Reduce public debt and prevent waste of public funds.
- Establish a public accounts tribunal to investigate abuses reported in audit reports and penalize those responsible.
- Ensure the independence of the Financial Crime Commission to hold those responsible for corruption and financial mismanagement accountable.
- Make sure new financial measures are thoroughly studied and justified before their implementation.
- Eliminate special purpose vehicles (SPVs) and integrate them into general public finances for more transparency.
- Favor local borrowing and limit borrowing from foreign institutions to reduce financial vulnerability.
Monetary Policy
Ensure the independence of the Bank of Mauritius and maintain sound financial management.
- Establish a committee to nominate Bank of Mauritius directors in consultation with the opposition, ensuring transparency and competence in appointments.
- Bring the management of the Mauritius Investment Corporation (MIC) under government oversight to integrate it into general public finances.
- Encourage Mauritian companies to reinvest their foreign currency in the national economy rather than withholding it, to stimulate growth.
Industry
Increase productivity and broaden the industrial base of the country.
- Build suitable infrastructure to attract new businesses and facilitate foreign investment.
- Support employee training for new industrial activities, beyond the limits of HRDC (Human Resource Development Council) reimbursement.
- Ensure that salary increases are aligned with productivity growth.
- Consider measures to protect the domestic market to enable the emergence of local champions in strategic products.
Blue Economy
Create employment for Mauritians and optimize the use of marine natural resources.
- Provide training to fishermen to improve their skills.
- Support fishing companies through tax incentives to promote growth.
- Develop partnerships with foreign powers to enhance surveillance of territorial waters and protect resources.
Ecology & Energy
Energy
Achieve energy independence by producing renewable energy locally rather than importing fossil fuels.
- Enable individual households to produce solar electricity, reducing their energy bills and contributing to the national energy transition.
- Increase the share of solar in the current energy mix to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
- Restore CEB (Central Electricity Board) governance to allow it to retain and reinvest its profits into its projects rather than covering the government’s budget deficit.
Climate Change
Develop infrastructure to protect Mauritians from the impacts of climate change.
- Publish and implement the Land Drainage Plan to prevent flooding.
- Execute the drainage projects announced in successive budgets, with close monitoring.
- Limit coastal development to preserve the environment.
- Provide public access to the cadastre for transparency in land information.
- Encourage energy and food autonomy measures to strengthen resilience against the impacts of climate change.
Legal Framework
Align the legal framework with international environmental principles.
- Repeal and replace the “Environment Act 2024”.
- Redefine the role of associations and the civil population in establishing and enforcing environmental policies.
- Strengthen the role of the Minister of Environment in developing economic strategies to ensure sustainable development.
- Review the functioning of the environmental tribunal to be better equipped to handle challenges against development permits.
Coastal Protection
Protect coastal areas from destructive development.
- End deproclamation of public beaches.
- Impose strict regulations for infrastructure in coastal areas and penalize offenders.
Education
Develop a comprehensive and integrated approach to education.
Students should have the opportunity, with the aid of appropriate curriculum and pedagogy, to develop their intellectual curiosity, critical and creative thinking skills, modern communication skills (to retrieve, evaluate and intelligently use information), problem-solving skills, entrepreneurship and leadership skills, research skills and innovation skills, citizenship/civic values, and ICT proficiency.
Implement a permanent monitoring mechanism aimed at ensuring the coherence of the education system with the country’s objectives and needs. Initiate a major commission of inquiry into the functioning of the system and to articulate a “national mission” of the education system based on four pillars as follows.
Reform of the Educational Approach
In consultation with all relevant stakeholders.
- Define a “Required Exit Profile” by educational level: Pre-primary/Primary/Extended program Secondary/Tertiary/Special needs. This profile must provide an adequate description of the expected educational objectives. Failure or poor performance do not provide positive standards enough to define this profile.
- Develop another dynamic approach to teaching social and emotional skills.
Topics to be studied in depth: The Environment, Social Ills, Philosophy, Sex Education (by level), IT, Civics, Ecology, Cultural Heritage, Rights and Duties of Children - Professionalize the curriculum in academic, artistic, sports and vocational streams.
- Develop distance learning.
- Provide training to parents in the management of Parents Teachers Associations.
Teacher Training
- Promote the teaching profession.
- Teachers must be specially trained not only academically and technically but also morally and professionally to assess students and report to the school and parents on their progress or problems in progressing.
- Personal development: continuous training in correlation with societal changes: Communication skills, professional skills, problem solving, student motivation, conflict management.
- Drafting a Code of Ethics for Teachers.
Assessment methods
- Diversify assessment criteria to include not only academic results but also all other areas of learning such as socio-emotional skills and other areas of student potential.
- Students must leave primary schools with a record in which teachers, school principals, school psychologists and parents have commented on their physical, intellectual, social, moral and emotional qualities and potential throughout their schooling for subsequent informed guidance. There is no justification for categorizing and classifying students at this age.
Management of the Educational Sector
- Depoliticization of staff and appointment of educators independent of political parties in education management bodies, valuing meritocracy rather than allegiance to the ruling party.
- Audit of MIE and PSEA services to identify gaps and align with quality objectives.
- Review of discipline in all colleges and provide rectors with increased powers to establish a peaceful teaching climate.
- Infrastructure: Audit of maintenance services and upgrading of school buildings to international health and safety standards.
- Increase in IT resources offered to students and ensure their working order.
- Implement a permanent monitoring mechanism aimed at ensuring the coherence of the education system with the country’s objectives and needs.
- Review the contribution of private schools.
- Create a research department for each subject and create a national audit mechanism to evaluate short/medium term results/implementations as well as the effectiveness and efficiency of the system.
- Establish a human resources department to anticipate and manage the sector’s evolving needs.
Productive Sectors
Agriculture and Food
Increase local production to reduce dependence on imports.
- Lease unused land for agricultural production.
- Provide subsidies to farmers and support them during adverse weather conditions.
- Training for planters in sustainable practices.
- Increase the share of the Mauritian fishing industry in our territorial waters.
- Establish structures to protect local producers and food processing companies.
Tourism
Restructure Air Mauritius and promote sustainable tourism that respects the environment and social balance.
- Recapitalize Air Mauritius with private funds to reduce government dependence.
- Appoint independent, professional management for Air Mauritius and the airport to improve governance.
- Limit tourism development to inland areas to preserve beaches and the coastline.
Governance & Democracy
Governance
Strengthen democracy and guarantee the independence of institutions for the common good.
- Reinforce the separation and independence of powers.
- Establish a Council of State to ensure institutional functioning and arbitrate conflicts.
Freedom of Expression
Protect freedom of the press and expression.
- Pass a Freedom of Information Act.
Right to Privacy
Respect citizens’ privacy rights.
- Destroy data collected during SIM card re-registration.
- Cancel the SIM card registration process.
- Ensure data collected for National Identity Cards have been destroyed.
Political Party Financing
Ensure transparency in political party financing and prevent excessive influence from lobbying groups.
- Enact legislation to declare sources of income and penalize money laundering.
Police
Improve the quality of police investigations and reduce collusion between police officers and drug traffickers.
- Create an independent judicial police force to conduct investigations within the law.
- Impose harsher criminal and disciplinary sanctions on police officers involved in drug trafficking.
Municipalities and District Councils
Increase the autonomy of municipalities and district councils.
- Implement a uniform municipal tax covering local services.
- Abolish the role of Private Parliamentary Secretary to prevent interference between Parliament and local authorities.
- Ensure revenues from advertising boards are allocated to local authorities.
Elections
Ensure minority views are represented in Parliament.
- Introduce a dose of proportional representation in the electoral law.
Infrastructure & Transport
Infrastructure
Ensure quality, sustainable infrastructure.
- Publish the Land Drainage Plan to guide public projects.
- Closely monitor all public works to ensure efficiency.
- Maintain sports and community infrastructure to keep them in good condition.
Transport
Encourage the use of public transport to reduce energy costs and the need for foreign currency.
- Develop a mobile app to publish bus schedules country-wide, making public transport more accessible.
- Set up a minibus network to better serve neighborhoods.
- Implement an entry tax for vehicles in Ébène and Port Louis to reduce the use of individual cars.
- Support the increase of bus lines through transport taxes on owners of high-capacity vehicles.
- Limit the number of new cars on the roads, following the example of Singapore.
- Impose tolls in congested cities to reduce traffic and encourage public transport use.
Commitment • Progress • Values
