Dear Editor,
Ever since the December 21, 2018 successful passage of the no-confidence motion, the PNC has been engaging on non-compliance of Article 106 (6) and (7), which say that the President and his Cabinet shall resign and a date be set for General Elections.
The PNC has violated this aspect of the Constitution to this day, with the most recent delaying tactic of national House-to-House Registration. They have embarked on a veneer of House-to-House Registration which in their terms is the cause for the delay in the President not resigning nor setting a date for elections. This aspect of the Constitution is deliberately sidestepped.
House-to-House Registration which could take at least 20 months is never linked to the President and Cabinet resigning their post, yet David Granger insists that the two are intricately linked.
Knowing that ruse of the PNC, the Chief Justice ruled that House-to-House Registration is a valid process, but, that is a programme for the situation in “normal times”; she reiterated the fact that we are not in normal times and another process must be explored. Madame Justice George in her wisdom, as it were, “ruled in their favour” thus disbarring them from making another one of these senseless appeals.
Had she ruled that House-to-House is illegal, Basil Williams would have seized the opportunity to appeal which would have taken another endless cycle of appeals and counter appeals which would take us past September 18.
The PNC would have again broken the law, continue their illegal stay in office and think it is funny. However, all of that is of no effect because the Chief Justice has put a block on that illegal route by the PNC for good. Now that things are “in their favour”, they must honour the Constitution as well as the CCJ’s ruling, that elections have to be held on or before September 18.
The point to note here is that with Madame George’s ruling, there is added pressure on the PNC; they must finish the House-to-House Registration, the Claims and Objections, and that aspect of the Constitution that says the President and his Cabinet shall resign and call elections all within the timeframe which ends on September 18. As we say in Guyanese creole is “sh..t to clean now”, Granger and cabal are in hot, hot mess, because they must honour Article 106 (6) and (7) to the letter.
If they do not respect the constitutional requirement, then the Opposition has every right to go straight to the CCJ, not the local court for redress. Granger, your days are numbered.
Respectfully,
Neil Adams
