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It would be ‘rather foolish’ to call LGE – Ramotar
By Abena Rockcliffe
Even as he exuded great confidence that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) would be victorious at any Local
President Donald Ramotar
Government Elections (LGE), President Donald Ramotar told a group of Amerindian leaders yesterday that there would be no LGE anytime soon.
The Head of State, as he addressed those who gathered at the yesterday’s opening of the biannual National Toshaos Conference, questioned, under the circumstances, “How can (A Partnership for National Unity) expect (a date to be set.)
The circumstances described by the President are that there is an existing No Confidence Motion which has been tabled in the National Assembly against the Government yet APNU is calling for LGE.
Ramotar said that he has noted the fact that APNU has pledged its support for the Motion and therefore he would not be naming a date for LGE. He said that he would be “rather foolish” for him to name a date at such a time.
“I will be rightly ridiculed by any right thinking person if faced with such a situation where our Minister goes to announce a date for Local Government Elections,” said the President.
He was applauded when he said, “We are not afraid of Local Government Elections, we will win whenever they are held.”
Ramotar said, however, that the problem is “that Local Government Elections from 1994 were impeded by the Opposition, up to 2010.”
The President claimed that the political opposition voted year after year to postpone LGE and now that the arithmetic has changed in the House, where they hold a majority, they are pushing for it.
Opposition Leader, David Granger, who had several meetings with the President recently, was quoted in the media expressing his belief that the President was almost at that point of naming a date for Local Government Elections.
Granger was reported as saying that he believes that his weekly protests in front the Office of the President are bearing fruit.
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