It has also been conveyed that SAJ would be prime minister for 3 years and Paul Berenger would take over for the rest of the parliamentary term if the coalition wins the next general elections.
It has also been agreed that Pravind Jugnauth who is leader of the MSM will not be in the Front Bench of the coalition in an eventual government of the MSM/MMM.
The coalition which was firstly made in 2000, was known as the "Medpoint Deal" and was formed by former Prime Minister and President Sir Anerood Jugnauth on 14 August 2000.
[citation needed] It was the first time that the country was experiencing a social change, Paul Berenger would become prime minister out of this deal and would be the first-non Hindu to hold such powerful post.
The Medpoint Deal was based on equal power shared by both parties and the office of the Prime Minister being head of government was in the ratio 3:2.
Then President of the Republic, Cassam Uteem was at his last mandate as Head of State and was due to leave office in 2002.
The deal also mentioned that as from September 2003, Pravind Jugnauth was to be appointed as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance .
All those four people were playing the political prepared game and everyone was trained like a soldier on battlefield so as to snatch the government of the hands of Navin Ramgoolam who was then prime minister.
Cassam Uteem resigned 6 months before his mandate ended and the entire deal was taking a new turn.
Nevertheless, Karl Offmann took office earlier that year and as mentioned accepted to only work with Sir Jugnauth.
[citation needed] The deal was settled and SAJ announced in early September that he will be resigning as prime minister, but that the population would not have to worry for the upcoming years as he would become president after some time.
[citation needed] He resigned in September 2003 and Berenger took office of prime minister and nominated Jugnauth as president.