Politics & Power Quote by Ali A. Saleh

The line reads like a mission statement that’s trying to smuggle urgency inside bureaucratic phrasing. Saleh’s repeated “in order” does two things at once: it casts democracy as a teachable discipline (something you learn, like literacy), and it frames the moment as conditional, even precarious. Democracy isn’t presented as a national identity so much as a national project - unfinished, vulnerable to relapse.

The most charged phrase is “peaceful transition of power.” Writers reach for that wording when the alternative is not hypothetical. It signals a political culture where leadership change has historically been personalized, contested, or violently disrupted. By foregrounding transition - not just elections, not just rights - Saleh points at the real stress test of any system: whether incumbents can lose without the state cracking apart.

“Stabilize and develop multiple choices” is where the subtext gets sharper. “Multiple choices” sounds innocuous, even consumer-friendly, but it’s a quiet indictment of constrained options: one-party dominance, patronage networks, or “elections” that function as ratification. The phrase “democratic practice” also matters; it implies that democracy is less a single event than an ongoing set of habits - institutions, norms, media freedom, civic education - that must be rehearsed until they stick.

As a piece of rhetorical positioning, it’s careful: no enemies named, no regime directly criticized. That restraint is part of the context. When democratic language has to be coded as pedagogy and “stability,” it often means the speaker is navigating censorship, factionalism, or the political risks of saying plainly: power needs to become transferable.