National Assembly towards extremism!same as media and nation

[silencearound]

Fourteen months, 1,841 incidents of terrorism, 1,395 lives lost. The number of inquiry reports presented in the National Assembly? Zero. Democracy, the politicians seem to forget, isnt about form over substance. When there isnt a National Assembly or its composition is jiggered to please a strongman, the politicians are rightly up in arms. But once a relatively freely elected and representative National Assembly is in place, the government of the day seems to regard its mere existence as enough for the democratic project. It is not. Particularly when it comes to militancy and its roots about which there is still a disastrous lack of consensus the government must do everything it can to involve parliament.

 

[Jury]

Fourteen months, 1,841 incidents of terrorism, 1,395 lives lost. The number of inquiry reports presented in the National Assembly? Zero. Democracy, the politicians seem to forget, isnt about form over substance. When there isnt a National Assembly or its composition is jiggered to please a strongman, the politicians are rightly up in arms. But once a relatively freely elected and representative National Assembly is in place, the government of the day seems to regard its mere existence as enough for the democratic project. It is not. Particularly when it comes to militancy and its roots about which there is still a disastrous lack of consensus the government must do everything it can to involve parliament.