The 'Alliance Sociale' wins the 2005 national elections in Mauritius. The alliance led by Dr. Navin Ramgoolam won 38 seats against 22 for the MMM-MSM alliance led by the outgoing PM Paul Berenger. The result was close in many areas (particularly nos 15,16,8,1,3,14). The overall result was kind of expected but this marks a change in politics (a 3 party system where an alliance of two of them would usually win) where a Labour led alliance won the election against 2 main political parties (with one of them having their leade voted out!).

The new PM announced that he will start working as from tomorrow on the the important dossiers. I do hope he selects the most competent people in his team of ministers and presses ahead with much needed changes.

I've been following this event on the following (mostly live) news channels (if you are interested in Mauritian radio/news):

1. www.servihoo.com (look for the section on national elections)
2. mbc.intnet.mu - the national tv and radio (look for a link to the general elections page). Here you'll get both the live evening news (video) and live radios (koolfm and taalfm).
3. www.r1.mu (the radio one web site with high quality audio LIVE)
4. www.topfmradio.com (another free radio with more music than news)

Other web sites worth noting (popular newspapers in Mauritius):
1. www.lexpress.mu (also provided news on the elections)
2. www.lematinal.com

Unfortunately there is no live broadcast from my favourite Mauritian radio broadcasting station - Radio Plus - which provides a really fair coverage of news/music/events. I'll put up a link if their web site ever come up.

For other sites relating to political parties in Mauritius:
Labour Party (and associates) -

1. labour.intnet.mu (the official website)
2. www.bizinchangement.net (more info)
   
3. www.alliance-sociale.biz (media centre)
   
4. www.diehardlabour.com(open articles)
   

MMM-MSM

1. http://www.mmmonline.org/ (not well maintained...)