Representative Democracy is a fallacy
In Uganda, we exercise representative democracy; that is where every individual receives direct representation for issues that are under debate through a representative, an MP. Whereas it is impossible to have every Ugandan vote on an issue, they (voters) exercise this through voting their representative in the parliament. As citizens, we give government two things, Votes (Power and Authority) and taxes and what we expect in return is the effective quality service delivery. Notwithstanding the above, I have noted with concern that actually this type of democracy is a sham and cannot deliver the citizens’ concerns. How do you treat dissenting views? The MP in the house is there because they won with majority votes. But they are representing the entire constituency including those that did not vote for them. It is common that these voters will always front dissenting views or even with their opinions, it is unlikely that the MP will take them since they are viewed as those that didn’