Lalit (Mauritius)

Mauritian political party

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Struggle

Lalit

Founded| 1981
Split from| Mauritian Militant Movement
Headquarters| 153 Main Road, Grand River North West
Ideology| Socialism
Marxism
Environmentalism
Anti-capitalism
Internationalism
Feminism
Political position| Left-wing
Website
http://www.lalitmauritius.org/

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Presidency

* President

Dharam Gokhool
* Vice-President

Robert Hungley

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Navin Ramgoolam
* Deputy Prime Minister

Paul Bérenger
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Speaker: Shirin Aumeeruddy-Cziffra
* Leader of the Opposition

Joe Lesjongard

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Chief Justice : Rehana Mungly-Gulbul

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*     * Recent elections: 2019
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Minister: Ritish Ramful

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Lalit (lit. 'Struggle') is a left-wing political party in the Republic of Mauritius. It is opposed to private or any other undemocratic control of government functions. According to its website, the party was created as a "free-expression monthly magazine" named "Lalit de Klas" (English: "Class Struggle") in 1976.[1] "Lalit" means "struggle" in Mauritian Creole. The party, which started as a tendency inside the Mauritian Militant Movement, split from it in 1981, when the MMM announced that it was embarking on a policy of "New Social Consensus", seen by Lalit as a policy of collaboration with the capital.[2]

Lalit desires what it calls "an alternative political economy",[1] and works towards care for the environment, against repression and torture, and towards women's liberation. Lalit strongly opposes communalism and the use of ethnoreligious labels for official purposes. Its candidates in the 2005 National Assembly elections each drew the legally compulsory classification he or she would use from a hat, regardless of candidate's actual supposed "ethnicity" or religion. The party failed to win seats in the Assembly.

The party opposes the presence of Anglo-American forces on the atoll of Diego Garcia[1] which forms part of the Republic of Mauritius.

## Election results

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### National Assembly elections

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Election  | Votes  | %  | Seats  | +/–  | Position  | Status

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1983 | 3,116  | 0.23  |

0 / 70

|  0  |  5th  | Extra-parliamentary
1987 | 8,723  | 0.52  |

0 / 70

|  0  |  6th  | Extra-parliamentary
1991 | —
1995 | —
2000 | 14,960  | 0.81  |

0 / 70

|  0  |  7th  | Extra-parliamentary
2005 | 13,726  | 0.70  |

0 / 70

|  0  |  7th  | Extra-parliamentary
2010 | —
2014 | 11,550  | 0.57  |

0 / 70

|  0  |  7th  | Extra-parliamentary
2019 | 4,119  | 0.19  |

0 / 66

|  0  |  14th  | Extra-parliamentary
2024 | 773  | 0.03  |

0 / 66

|  0  |  12th  | Extra-parliamentary

## References

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1. ^ a b c Lalit website, "About", Retrieved March 2, 2012.
2. ^ Republic of Mauritius:The Experience of Resistance to Neo-Liberalism Archived 2004-09-09 at the Wayback Machine Human Rights Programme of the Europe-Third World Centre (CETIM), 2000

## External links

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Political parties in Mauritius

National Assembly|

| Major|

* Labour Party (35)
* Mauritian Militant Movement (18)

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Minor|

* Rezistans ek Alternativ (3)
* New Democrats (3)
* Rodrigues People's Organisation (2)
* Alliance Liberation (2)
* Militant Socialist Movement (1)
* Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate (1)

Unrepresented|

* Reform Party
* Lalit
* Parti Malin
* Mauritian Solidarity Front
* Muvman Liberater
* Plateforme Militante
* Rodrigues Movement
* Les Verts Fraternels

Defunct|

* Mauritian Militant Socialist Movement
* Republican Movement
* Muslim Committee of Action
* Mauritian Party of Xavier-Luc Duval
* Parti Socialiste Mauricien
* Independent Forward Bloc

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