CHECK & Balance is a famous word among politician of countries which are practicing democracy. As a young democracy country, our constitution made of 3 major pillars called, parliament, executive and judicial. We are seeing how independently each of them are working and it say how much we have succeeded by our new adapted strategy. Some still widely say that executive is influencing the way our judicial work that affect the rule of law within country. Our people have been distrust on our judicial system due to widely corruption and it seem won't restore people's confident in short period time.
Recent incident that parliament tried to block telecommunication tender result by citing pending law voice louder among local media and critics. Is it sign of disconnect between executive and parliament on the cooperation ground? Parliament speaker defended its stance that it is normal to be different between executive and parliament in democratic countries. Our people got less exposure with democratic practice among their daily life. Whoever initiate the move, each sector should put first priority for our people interests because it is their sworn obligation to protect people. I think seeing them argue on a matter is beauty of democracy. Because there is no such thing in a communist nation/ military regime states where one man decision enough to make everything happen on lives. The unofficial fourth pillar to encourage check & balance is our private media who play an important role in finding any wrongdoing among higher ranking officials as well as cronies capitalism. Though transparency is yet to reach optimum, our people today have been enjoying some degree of freedom to express their feeling. It is, without doubt, already fruit of changing system now in Myanmar. It is time for Myanmar to see more conflicts of interests as it open up.
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