Gov’t plan to reject opposition bills is sign of frustration

Raphael Trotman

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman yesterday said that the President Donald Ramotar’s line in the sand over bills passed by the opposition without government input is a sign of frustration.

“I think that it is a statement perhaps more out of frustration that he feels that the government is being pressed to the wall and I would say perhaps bad advice; a combination of the two, because if we were to understand a concept of the separation of powers, the legislator has a right to pass laws and as president, unless you can show very good and exceptional reasons why he should refuse to assent to them,