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“No snap elections” – Dr. Luncheon
Government’s main spokesperson Dr. Roger Luncheon at his weekly press conference on Wednesday stated that the
Dr. Roger Luncheon
Administration is not likely to call snap elections ahead of the Opposition sponsored “No Confidence Motion” which is expected to be debated when Parliament resumes on October 10.
There has been widespread speculation that the ruling party might call for “snap elections” before that matter is discussed when Parliament resumes.
The Cabinet Secretary told reporters that the Administration is not interested in what he termed a “futile course of action” as a “bypass” to the possibility of a successful No Confidence Motion.
“Forget snap elections… it wouldn’t happen,” Luncheon said to reporters as he was quizzed on the issue.
There was talk that the Administration will call snap elections to avoid being brought down by a vote of no confidence; but according to Dr. Luncheon, the government is prepared to wait and see the outcome of the combined parliamentary Opposition’s plans. Luncheon also dismissed the notion of both Local Government and National Elections being held simultaneously, noting that it is not “logical.
Brigadier David Granger yesterday in an address to the nation said, that the Guyanese people face a grave threat to their constitutional liberties and privileges. He said the time has come for all good people to demand their ‘inalienable’ right to elect the persons they want to represent them in their towns, villages and neighbourhoods.
Granger had written to the President last week urging him to announce a date for the long overdue Local Government Elections by September 15. He threatened that if this was not done he would mobilize local, national and international support “in defence of democracy.”
“President Donald Ramotar and the People’s Progressive Party Civic – PPPC – Administration have tried every device to derail the legislative process and to delay local government elections” Granger’s statement said.
“The President and his Party have no interest in conducting local government elections and they have no intention of complying with the mandate of the National Assembly, or no inclination to deepen local democracy” the statement said.
Last month the Alliance For Change (AFC) made good on its promise to file a No Confidence Motion against the Guyana Government which if approved, will force Head of State, President Donald Ramotar to call fresh general elections.
The motion was delivered by AFC’s General Secretary, David Patterson and Treasurer Dominic Gaskin, to the Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs.
The combined opposition, which has a one-seat parliamentary majority over the PPP government that has been in power for the past 22 years, has expressed repeated disappointment in the Administration, whom they claim has been involved in financial impropriety and failed to adhere to decisions of the House among other things.
The AFC had indicated its move of the no-confidence motion against the PPP government, since all of the changes that it bargained for in the development of the country have not been given an ear by the Administration. The Finance Minister’s alleged “violation of the law” with the spending of $4.5B not approved by the National Assembly in the 2014 budget, among other issues, also fuelled the No-Confidence Motion.
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