The Samaritan Act 2 Scene III- The Political Strategy
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The same day, Thursday late in the afternoon, the Mayor had Ms. Nicole at Sagrada secondary school, the Deputy Mayor, Hon. Ramdaye, Hon. Seymour and Hon. Ted hold their meeting at the Madingo Golf Club to discuss the ousting of Mayor Mossi.
Ramdaye, Ted and Seymour meet to re-strategies how they are going to oust Mayor Mossi from power. They opt to recruit more members to support them. The members are of different opinion, some with independent minds and cannot be swayed by allegations. Another group is the political entrepreneurs who want to side with the one who will pay them well, and the last group is the indecisive ones who resort to support the opposition chief Hon. Basdeo so that they can gain more numbers to have a vote -of- no- confidence against the Mayor.
Basdeo argues out that in order to succeed in removing Mossi from power they need to alienate him from the people and set the people against him.
He comes up with several lies that could incite the people against the Mayor.
First the marginalization of other communities is one of the strategies used. The lie is that Mossi had earmarked all the money allocated to the development of the
wards occupied by Mossi’s ethnic group members. Another lie used against him was to claim that Mossi’s people have a smell resembling the battle while other people don’t smell.
Basdeo suggests that they should convene a huge political rally, and Hon. Ted is to distribute the topics to the councilors and older men who are on their side so that they can prepare adequately for the speech. The rally is to be held on Wednesday.