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The Government is blowing its chance every day it refuses to do the inevitable
Dear Editor,
The recent adjudication by the Chief Justice on the matters brought before the court by the Government concerning the No Confidence Motion should be welcomed by all Guyanese. The CJ should be applauded for a job well done.
The Attorney General continues to disappoint the President and the Nation in his interpretation of the Constitution. Basil Williams (AG) may continue to wallow in his ludicrousness by appealing the decision of the CJ in his effort to filibuster on the consequences of the no confidence motion, which entails the resignation of the president and cabinet and elections in 90 days from December 21, 2018. It seems the Coalition’s Leaders lack the knowledge to understand that every day they delay the inevitable, resignation and setting a date for elections, they are losing support from the electorate.
The Constitution is the dividing line that protects the people from transgressions by the Government. Any government that is perceived to deliberately suppress the Constitution to achieve its own narrow-minded objective will never be considered worthy of a mandate from the electorate.
The continued attempt to gerrymander on the provisions of Article 106 of the Constitution by citing frivolous excuses is sending a signal to the psyche of electorate that this Government cannot be trusted with power and that they have no inkling to obey the tenets of the Constitution.
In a world where democratic norms are treasured, their continued refusal to abide by the constitution is portraying an aura of a caved mentality to the electorate. Every day they delay, they are squandering their chances of winning against a baggage-laden animal offered to the electorate by the PPP, much to the disgruntlement of the PPP supporters.
Moreover, they risk taking the country into the unchartered waters of a constitutional crisis. Should this happen, they will have reached the point of no return because the fallout would be too huge. The people in the leadership of the Coalition generally seem visionless and this reality seems to elude all of them.
In their perceived greed to hang on to power, they have moved from testing the validity of the confidence motion to assert that GECOM is unprepared and that house to house registration should be done to validate the voters’ list. This is nothing more than a delaying strategy as they continue to “shoot themselves in the foot” in the presence of the electorate.
GECOM had been doing continuous registration. Moreover, less than six months ago, GECOM held the last LGE elections at which no one complained about the list. It is the public’s perception that GECOM can update its list to meet the constitutional deadline stipulated by Article 106 (6).
Nevertheless, Government continued with its planned resistance. Ramjattan was in Berbice blabbing about a majority at GECOM being 4; having 3 opposition and 3 Government commissioners and a chairman with voting rights to justify GECOM delaying the elections.
What Ramjattan conveniently forgot to mention was that GECOM chairperson is the product of a unilateral appointment by the president, while the constitution had required a consensual candidate. Going this road will open a bigger can of worms for the Coalition and increase the fallout from the electorate.
Every day that passes with the government continued refusal to resign and set a date for election, the general public sees the Government building a Trojan Horse with intent to subdue the will of the people. Every passing day, more of the electorate are prepared to turn their backs on the Coalition. The Coalition just does not seem to get it!
Rudolph Singh
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