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Govt. actions warrant no confidence motion
… Undermines parliamentary democracy – APNU
Gary Eleazar
The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Administration is determined to provoke a constitutional crisis and undermine
APNU’s Chief Whip Amna Ally
parliamentary democracy and as such their actions warrant a no confidence motion that A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) may likely support.
This is according to Chief Whip of the coalition Amna Ally, who yesterday along with Executive members Joseph Harmon and Ronald Bulkan, met with members of the media in lieu of the Opposition Leader who is in Washington DC, and lamented the actions of the Administration throughout the course of the 10th Parliament.
Ally accused the PPP/C of trying to diminish the autonomy and authority of the National Assembly.
“The PPP/C has been trying to prevent the National Assembly from functioning in a democratic manner mainly because it finds itself in a parliamentary minority…matters are now coming to head.”
She qualified her accusations by pointing to what she termed a defiance of the National Assembly on the part of government over the last 29 months
According to Ally the PPP/C,” has defied the decisions of the National Assembly to disapprove funds; withheld assent to important bills; refused to implement resolutions; brought Motions in the High Court against the Speaker and Opposition Leader and launched a fierce media campaign against members of the National Assembly.”
She told the local media corps that “the Executive’s worst display of contempt for Parliamentary democracy was Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh’s submission of a “Statement of Excess” to the National Assembly last week…This indicated that the Executive had already spent more than $4.5B of the $31B that the Opposition had disapproved in the debate on the National Budget in March and April this year.”
Ally described it as a move that is contemptuous of the Assembly’s actual passage of the Appropriation Bill at the end of the debate.
Ally further chided the Administration saying that another anti-parliamentary tactic by the Executive was the President’s extraordinary ‘Ramotar Doctrine.’
Head of State Donald Ramotar had announced publicly two years ago that he had no intention of supporting any Bill piloted by the Opposition.
She quoted the President as saying “I am making it very clear that I will not assent to any Bill that ‘they’ carry unless it is with the full agreement of the Executive and the full involvement of the Executive.”
The President, as a result, delayed his assent to several Bills, including three Local Government Bills — the Local Government Commission Bill, the Municipal and District Councils (Amendment) Bill and the Fiscal Transfers Bill.
He refused to assent to the Local Government (Amendment) Bill; the Fiscal Management and Accountability (Amendment) Bill and the Former Presidents (Facilities and Other Benefits) Bill.
She lamented too, the Executive’s resort to the High Court.
In light of her lamentations, Ally was asked if APNU would support the Alliance For Change (AFC) which has already publicly announced its intention to bring a no confidence motion against the entire Government.
Should such a motion be successful it would force the Administration to call fresh General Elections.
President Ramotar has already responded by daring the AFC to table the motion if it so desires.
As it relates to APNU’s support for the AFC’s No Confidence Motion, Ally said that Government has been engaged in numerous things that warrant any Opposition to vote no confidence in them.
She did point out that the matter has not been formally brought to APNU by the AFC and further, if and when this is done, the first line of business would be to examine it at the level of the Shadow Cabinet.
Based on her earlier pronouncements, Ally said that it is very likely that the APNU would support a no confidence motion against government.
“I have no doubt we may support it,” said Ally.
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