The public is looking towards the "Iron Lady"

The public is looking towards the “Iron Lady”

Aug 08, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

The Chief Justice has set August 14 as the date for her ruling on the matter by Chris Ram, challenging the constitutionality of the ongoing H2H registration. The focus will turn to GECOM where a newly appointed Chair (Claudette Singh), in her own innate logic, with regards to the CCJ consequential decision, has the power to stop H2H registration if she sees it as an impediment to taking GECOM to a state of readiness for elections to be held in the stipulated CCJ timeline (September 18). Given the gravity of this decision and implications it holds in relevance to abiding with the CCJ consequential decision on the NCM, I would want to think that the CJ would be hoping that her counterpart at GECOM would make a decision on this matter before the 14th of August, rendering her decision as useless, since GECOM is where H2H registration originated on the decision of an illegal Chair. I see no difficulty in a legal chair demolishing the structures (H2H registration) of an illegal Chairman, if it is not conducive to honouring the CCJ timeline for elections and will disenfranchise more people than the normal claims and objections used in the past to update the OLE. One would have expected a week would have suffice the newly appointed GECOM Chair to familiarise herself with the status of the situation at GECOM and make her decision on the way forward in sync with the CCJ decision. The second week is ticking and no word to the public as yet. I must confess that being GECOM Chair at this juncture is no walk in the park. Patterson, having paraded aimlessly past the expiration of the OLE on March 31, and then informing the President that GECOM needed funds to carry out H2H registration to produce a credible list for the holding of elections, all the while having the knowledge that an NCM was passed and would necessitate the holding of elections.
Patterson’s failure to keep GECOM in a state of readiness for the holding of elections, in sync with GECOM’s constitutional mandate is conducive to collusion with the Coalition. Patterson’s appointment, having been deemed illegal, makes his entire stint at GECOM illegal. After Patterson demitted office – being deemed illegal by the CCJ – I see no point in the GECOM CEO executing Patterson’s recommended H2H as if it were a presidential order. Perhaps it was – the President having a knack for usurping independent constitutional bodies!
How else do we explain his starting of H2H when his response to whether the NRR could produce a credible OLE for the holding of elections by a period of claims and objections was, “always have, always will”. Why differ from the orthodox way? The public is looking towards the “Iron Lady” for action and answers.

Rudolph Singh

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