Georgetown : President Donald Ramotar during his address to over 200 Amerindian leaders gathered at the Guyana International Conference Centre yesterday, expressed confidence about victory in the next local government election.
The President told the Amerindian leaders at the launch of the National Toshaos Council (NTC) meeting that, “We are not afraid of any local government election; we will win the local government election, whenever it is held”.
Local government election is due under the law and the current government has stated and reiterated its commitment to holding same as early as is reasonably possible.
Dismissing claims that government was avoiding the constitutionally due elections, he recalled that since 1994, the main political Opposition had up to 2010 requested adjournments. When the arithmetic changed, following the last general elections, the political opposition then reneged on some of the agreements that were in place.
The fact that one opposition party has called for a ‘no -confidence’ motion and the other has indicated its support for same, President Ramotar said that he would be “rightly ridiculed by any right thinking person if, when faced by such a situation, to instruct the minister to set a date for any local government election. That is foolish to do something like that”.
That no confidence motion if it is taken to its logical conclusion will mean that by virtue of the constitution, parliament will be dissolved, forcing the President and the Cabinet to resign, and elections to be held within three months after the dissolution of parliament.
With this constitutional formulation, the holding of local government election will be highly improbable.
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