A meeting of the National Assembly’s Committee of Selection to decide on the composition of parliamentary committees ended in a stalemate yesterday as the government and the opposition remained divided over the numbers.
The ruling PPP/C and opposition APNU and AFC are now expected to try and reach consensus when tripartite talks resume next week.
According to reliable sources, the Committee of Selection meeting yesterday ended with the government holding to the view that the numerical composition of the committees of the House should be retained as they had been in previous parliaments, when the PPP/C government held an overall majority. But the opposition members
