Gov’t won’t call snap polls to pre-empt no-confidence vote

Roger Luncheon

The Donald Ramotar administration will not call early general elections to pre-empt the no-confidence motion against it when the National Assembly comes out of its recess next month.

“We need to dispense with this notion that this administration, to counter the no-confidence motion, would seek to introduce some snap elections. It will not happen,” Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday.

According to Luncheon, while there has been much public speculation that government would seek to bypass the