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“Objectionable” no confidence motion too serious to push on just guess work – PM
Addressing the No-Confidence Motion slated for today, in a Facebook live broadcast, Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo, yesterday warned the opposition to withdraw the motion, out of concern for the wellbeing of the country. He said that elections will come 2020, and that there’s no need for there to be a general election three years after the coalition took office.
The Prime Minister said that the Opposition’s justification for raising the motion was because of their victories in the recent local government elections, where the PPP/C secured over 60% of the votes. He said that the results of the LGE are of no consequence because the proportion of seats for each party in the national assembly remains as it was before election.
“Their numbers in the parliament didn’t change. They still have 32 seats.”
Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo during his live broadcast
He also stated that the LGE results are inconsequential because of the low voter turnout during the election.
He said that the opposition is trying to capitalize on illusory insecurity in the ranks of the coalition, hoping and guessing that someone will cross the table to vote with the opposition.
He further said that the opposition is immorally using the President’s illness as a tactic to feign a lack of confidence by members of the APNU/AFC coalition in its leadership.
He expressed his confidence in the ranks of the coalition, and said that the motion is objectionable, and is indicative of contempt by the opposition for the social cohesion of the country, especially during the Christmas season.
Addressing the leader of the Opposition, the Prime Minister said that “The Grinch” is irresponsibly disrupting the security of the country, in a bid to “spread doom and gloom” and “kill Christmas” so that it could be blamed on the government.
As for the opposition’s expression of interest in delaying the no-confidence vote to next year, the Prime Minister said that they should not defer the motion, that it should either be withdrawn or carried quickly, so that it could be defeated, for the country to run as normal.
“There will be no shutdown of Guyana, or of the government,” declared Nagamootoo.
The last time a no-confidence motion was slated to be carried by parliament in late 2014, the then President Donald Ramotar prorogued and subsequently dissolved the national assembly to prevent the vote from occurring, since he feared that the majority of seats held by the joint opposition at the time would cause the vote to succeed.
This had led to a snap general election in 2015, which resulted in the end of the PPP/C’s 23-year governance of Guyana.
This time around, the PPP/C has the same number of seats it had in 2014. It is, however, attempting to capitalize on the insecurity of opposition members, which follows the recent LGE results and the illness of President David Granger, as well as the current controversy over whether the Prime Minister should be allowed to serve in the National Assembly while acting as President of Guyana.
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