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Next week’s National Assembly sitting postponed … Gov’t to bring back $27 million Supplementary Provision

May 26, 2012 News

 

Next week’s sitting of the National Assembly has been delayed by a week.
Kaieteur News understands that it was the government that requested the postponement. Usually, the government advises the Clerk of the National Assembly when to call a sitting of the National Assembly.
This newspaper understands that the Speaker of the House, Raphael Trotman was due to meet with President Donald Ramotar yesterday.
The sitting was scheduled for next Wednesday and Thursday when the government had said it would test the opposition’s resolve to reverse the budget cuts.
One month ago, the opposition controlled legislature voted to cut the 2012 budget by $20 billion. Opposition parties had said that if they could be convinced they would be willing to reverse the cuts by voting favourably if the government brings a Supplementary Financial Paper to the National Assembly.
At the sitting that was scheduled for next week, the government was seeking clearance for $27 million, which the opposition did not vote for on March 15. At that time, the government was able to get cleared some $5 billion in supplementary provisions. But left out of that vote was $27 million.
“I would be more than pleased to have us shocked into disbelief were this supplementary paper for the $27M for four line items to be authorised by Parliament,” Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon announced.
But he was not optimistic that this would happen.
“If indeed there’s a genuine desire to reverse course then the question to my mind is then, why did you go down this road in the first place.”
The seven-seat Alliance for Change (AFC) has already signaled that it would not be voting in favour.
“I speak here for the (AFC) and I want to let it be known that having already voted on it we will find it extremely difficult to now vote for it,” AFC Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan told reporters Wednesday.
The next sittings of the National Assembly have been pushed to June 6 and June7.

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