A report on establishing a legal office for the National Assembly that would offer assistance with drafting Bills for the Opposition is expected to be taken back to the Parliamentary Management Committee (PMC) before the parliamentary recess begins.
“The PMC has more or less, in principle, agreed [to the establishment of the office],” Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman told Stabroek News. The joint opposition, APNU and AFC, which hold an unprecedented one-seat majority in the National Assembly have called for Parliament to have its own legal office, particularly after Attorney General Anil Nandlall had earlier made it clear that his office would not be providing assistance to them in terms of the drafting of Bills.
The issue came further into the spotlight when two opposition Bills passed by the House were sent to the Attorney General for an “assent certificate” ‒ a procedure that was criticised by several commentators including APNU spokesman on
