Eminent economist and CPD Chairman Rehman Sobhan has characterised the interim government’s plan to conduct a referendum on 38 reform proposals as an essentially “non-serious proposition.” Speaking at a conference titled “Rupture, Reform and Reimagining Democracy” at the BRAC Centre Inn in the capital today (29 January), Rehman argued that asking ordinary citizens to provide a “yes” or “no” answer to such complicated and technical reform measures – of which they have little awareness – is an ineffective and opaque way to attempt systemic change.
Eminent economist and CPD Chairman Rehman Sobhan has characterised the interim government’s plan to conduct a referendum on 38 reform proposals as an essentially “non-serious proposition.” Speaking at a conference titled “Rupture, Reform and Reimagining Democracy” at the BRAC Centre Inn in the capital today (29 January), Rehman argued that asking ordinary citizens to provide a “yes” or “no” answer to such complicated and technical reform measures – of which they have little awareness – is an ineffective and opaque way to attempt systemic change.
