Why postpone the debate on the no confidence motion?

Nov 26, 2018 Letters

Dear Editor,
I have listened to Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo talking about the no confidence motion put forward by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo and after all of it, the question must be asked: If the Prime Minister is so confident about a government win in the no confidence motion why not debate it early? Why propose a debate after the 15th or 16th of December?
Why debate it after the national budget? What happens if the no confidence motion succeeds?
The Prime Minister said the government is not running away from the no confidence motion, but then says there are other things that must take precedence.
The Prime Minister has been in Parliament for a long time. Is he not familiar with the urgency that no confidence motions are treated with in other Parliaments?
Another thing the Prime Minister said is that the recent Local Government Elections did not pass a judgment on the government and was not a referendum on the APNU+AFC Coalition. Did the Prime Minister not see the results of the LGE? Or is he still thinking that his party the AFC won over 10 per cent of the votes at the Local Government Elections?
Even if he wants to say that voter turnout was low, has he not read the newspapers where letter writers lamented the issue of voter apathy?
In the middle of his response, the Prime Minister also misleads Guyanese. He claims that the Opposition says they do not want the no confidence motion approved – false.
Starting off with this misleading statement, he questions the logic in bringing a no confidence motion and claims that the Opposition wants to “psychologically harass the Guyanese people.” How can this be taken seriously by the Guyanese people?
He also repeats that the Opposition has no prospect for success with the no confidence motion. Again I ask, if he is so confident, why not debate it early?
The Prime Minister boasts too about the APNU/AFC Coalition winning by a majority of votes in 2015. He should remember that it was a slim win, a one-seat win that the APNU/AFC Coalition secured.
Regards
Baldeo Mathura

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