APNU confident Ramotar will approve local gov’t bills

Basil Williams

Main opposition APNU believes that President Donald Ramotar will assent to the four local government bills passed in the National Assembly on Wednesday.

“I am very confident [that the president will assent to the Bills],” said APNU Basil Williams, speaking at a press conference yesterday at the Brickdam office of the Leader of the Opposition. “Even if the president didn’t want to, under the circumstances I believe that he could hardly avoid assenting to the bills,” he said.

The local government bills passed on Wednesday are the Local Government Commis-sion Bill, the Local Govern-ment (Amendment) Bill, the Municipal and District Coun-cils (Amendment) Bill and the