AFC leader Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday suggested that the PPP has been attempting to pay off at least three opposition parliamentarians as much as $30 million each, ahead of a possible vote on a no-confidence motion against the government—a claim that both the Donald Ramotar administration and the ruling party strongly refuted yesterday.
“We’ve gotten reliable information that the PPP’s answer to the no-confidence motion is not like what is being said now. The answer is to at least buy off three parliamentarians, at $30 million each, to vote no rather than yes. That’s the only way. So that all they are saying, that they have an option, that is the only option that they have,” Ramjattan told a press conference yesterday.
The allegation was made a day after the government indicated that it will not call early general elections to
