The Guyana Government will have to deal with the consequences of failing to abide with A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) motion on National Assets which was approved in the House by the Combined Opposition recently.
This is according to Carl Greenidge.
He was responding to Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall, who had said that there is absolutely nothing in law that would compel the Government to abide with the resolutions of an Opposition Parliamentary motion.
The motion on State Assets was piloted by Greenidge, who serves as APNU’s point man on finances.
He told Caribbean Trakker that Nandlall is correct, in that there is no law to compel the Government, but reminded that there are still consequences to be had.
He reminded that the Executive and Legislative Branches of Government are independent of each other, but there is a level of cooperation required.
“They are still inter-dependent of each other,” said Greenidge as he explained that should the Government fail to abide with the resolutions in the motion, then finding the support of the opposition on any piece of Government business in the House would prove to be difficult.
Greenidge says that APNU is prepared to hold the government at abeyance in the House, in order to have its demands met.
The Former Finance Minister did point out that this is not the only mechanism available to the Opposition and he warned that “no option has been taken off the table.”
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