Ever wanted to hear a song encouraging you to vote PTR-MMM in the 2014 Mauritian general election? No? Well here it is anyways.

I don't know who Rajesh Bhagwan, Franco Quirin, and Danisha Sornum are but they seem like nice enough people.

Oh, and PTR = Labor Party and MMM = Mauritian Militant Movement. I should note that Mauritian party politics seem a bit strange to me because I go to Wikipedia and all the parties in the National Assembly are listed as "center-left" or "left-wing", except for the Mauritian Social Democratic Party, which is "center-right to right-wing". So what exactly is the difference between the different parties in Mauritius? How do they decide which coalitions to form?

Even the parties that are outside of the National Assembly, multiple of them are again listed as "center-left" or "left-wing", and it's like, why are these parties not successful whereas parties with apparently largely identical politics are?

The best political party in Mauritius seems to be Lalit, one of the parties outside of the National Assembly. It is explicitly Marxist and split from MMM in the 1980s, as MMM was becoming progressively less radical. Lalit's website inexplicably contains a complete translation dictionary of Mauritian Creole to English if you've ever wanted to learn Mauritian Creole.

Still, although Lalit is clearly the best party, for a small peripheral country like Mauritius, social democrats are certainly more deserving of support than social democrats in the imperial core, right?