ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF MULTIPARTY SYSTEM

Advantages of Multi- party system:

1.      Promotes democracy; mulipartism gives the citizens freedom and the rights of choosing or selecting their leaders without breaking the laws.in multipartism the citizens are free to join any registered political party also are free to vote and to be voted,It is not commanded to vote a leader from your political party but a citizen can choose a leader even out of his/her political party.

2.      It enhances electoral transparency; during election all political parties have equal rights of struggling for authority,all political parties are given equal chance of announcing their policies to the citizens.all political parties produce agents for counting votes and are given equal rights to be the witness of the results of election.

3.      provides opinions of each section of the society; multipartism system makes the citizens to give their feelings and suggestions of improving their parties.a citizen is free to agree or disagree a leader during the process of choosing the representative.

4.      Increase developmental competition of political parties; multipartism increases the competition among the political parties,the political parties compete in giving social services to the citizens so as to obtain faith of citizens to a political party.through the member of parliaments political parties compete to provide development in the society.

5.      Discourages power monger; multipartism does not promote power monger.power monger is a situation in which a political leader remain in power although the exactly time of him/her to lead people is ended according to the constitution.multipartism provides the exchange of leaders in ruling the people according to time allocated by the constitution.

Disadvantages of multipartism

1.      May cause political instability; multipartism may cause conflicts among the citizens because the political parties differ in some policies,sometimes a political party which is in power does not need criticism or some leaders dislike their evils about national resources to be exposed public.this always causes conflicts between those leaders of political party which is in power against the rest.

2.      It consumes time in decision making; decision making in multipartism takes long process because all decision making are not done by one person,the decision making should be collected,discussed and then implemented.the parliament is a body that receives and decides many things after being discussed.It takes time for decisions to be implemented.

3.      Increases hostility; multipartism increases some evils among the leaders,the leaders are fighting silently to protect their leadeship.sometimes activists enter into troubles after criticizing the leaders of political parties,activists may get attacked,injured or killed by say the truth that expose the evils of politicians.

4.      It may lead to corruption; multipartism may lead to corruption because each politician needs to get power of leading the citizens,politicians use a lot of techniques to make sure that they get win during election.one of the  illegal way is through corruption by giving money the citizens or sweetable things for aim of getting voted and win the election.

5.      Lead to enmity among the politicians; the great enmity may rise between the political party that have powers against the opposition politicians,sometimes this enmity leads to abusement and attacking some politicians.this may results to death of some politicians after being killed.