The AFC’s proposals for constitutional reform remain a work in progress and thus far, among its initial suggestions are that the President must be able to secure a majority of the votes cast and members of Cabinet should only be appointed subject to the approval of the National Assembly.
Among the initial proposals laid out by the party’s chairman Nigel Hughes at the AFC’s biennial National Conference held at the St Stanislaus College two Saturdays ago was that the organs of democratic power should consist of the National Assembly and the Presi-dency with the Presidency being the minor of the two organs.
“In the event that a new constitution identifies and locates the `organs of democratic power’ in the National Assembly and the Presidency then the election of the President shall be effected directly by the people and not by virtue of being head of any party as exists at present,” he said, according to a copy of his speech made available to Stabroek News.
Under the current arrangements,
