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Choosing regional chairmen could also prove contentious

Jan 08, 2012 News

–    Consensus needed in selection of chairman of Regions 4, 7, 8

Even as the government and opposition political parties struggle to find consensus on who will be the Speaker of the National Assembly, the election of chairmen for at least three Regions could also prove contentious.
Legally, the new Parliament has to be convened by January 28, after which the Regional Democratic Councils (RDCs) would be constituted.
However, neither the governing People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), the Alliance for Change (AFC), not A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has an absolute majority in Regions Four, Seven, and Eight.
All of the political parties have not yet submitted their nominees for councilors on the Ten RDCs.
Significantly, Region Four was a stronghold of the People’s National Congress, which is the major partner in APNU’s coalition, and had always been guaranteed the chairmanship post, but now it has lost that control and would be looking for support from either of the parties to keep that position.
The AFC would be looking to secure the chairmanship in Region Eight, where it won six of the available seats. The PPP and APNU both managed four seats each. The AFC is now left in a position of courting the other parties if it wants to gain control in this region at least.
The same situation exists in Region Seven, where none of the parties won an absolute majority.
The opposition parties, which will control the National Assembly, have been finding it difficult to agree on a Speaker, and the government has threw jabs at it for feeling it was simple as “ganging up” to confront the ruling alliance is proving to be much more difficult than anticipated.
“The first hurdle, the selection of the speaker, reinforces the perception that their politics is not based on reason. The apparent abandonment of consensus-seeking embodied in the notions of the tripartite initiative does not augur well for the future,” the Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, said Wednesday.

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