Georgetown: Cabinet Secretary, Dr Roger Luncheon has confirmed that Government has not yet held, what he calls, “formal” discussions on the no-confidence motion tabled by the Alliance For Change (AFC) that could trigger early General and Regional elections by January 2015.
Dr Luncheon said that informal discussions were held and Government members sought to offer various perspectives on the motion which the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) says it will support when tabled in Parliament.
“No, it wasn’t discussed at Cabinet this week. I suspect, it will be but the swirling views that are in the media from media and from politicians, I suspect that Cabinet would defer a substantive review after there has been a compilation of all of those views,” he said.
Dr Luncheon noted that every day, there is an emergence of new positions by various political actors which are proving interesting to Government.
“What started out as a no-confidence motion has morphed into different possibilities… I am not even certain in my mind, listening to what is being said in the media and what is being attributed to David Granger and Nagamootoo, there seems that there is indeed “some consolidated view” of what this no-confidence motion is all about,” he opined.
He said it is clear that the “goal posts are changing” as he readily opined that there is no doubt in Government’s mind that the Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman would see the motion as admissible and acceptable, given his track record as well as rulings on contentious issues such as these.
The Cabinet is likely to discuss the motion next week and will decide on what is the most suitable course of action.
The ruling political party’s General Secretary Clement Rohee has already told media operatives that there are a number of options available to Government to deal with the vote of no-confidence and that they were under consideration and being given due credence.
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