It was only after the PPP/C said it would not support Deborah Backer’s nomination as Speaker in the hours leading up to the vote that opposition coalition APNU decided that it would support Raphael Trotman as the compromise candidate, party leader David Granger has admitted.
Backer, Granger said, was APNU’s preferred nominee because of her gender, experience, training in mediation and commitment to change. “We did want a woman and she would have been the first woman Speaker of the National Assembly and we felt it was time to have a woman,” the newly minted opposition leader said.
Granger, during a recent interview with Stabroek News, said that up to the Wednesday night the opposition coalition still had its two nominees–Backer and Cammie Ramsaroop—on the
