With the naming of Election Day the country has been returned on a democratic track, said Speaker of the 10th Parliament Raphael Trotman who welcomed the date and is overjoyed as the country could not have endured the tension longer.
“I am very happy today and overjoyed that… something has given because we couldn’t have this tension any longer,” Trotman told Stabroek News in a comment.
On Tuesday evening President Donald Ramotar named May 11 as the day of general and regional elections; two months after he had prorogued the Parliament.
Trotman yesterday said democracy won “because it means you can’t suspend a co-equal branch of government and continue to say you are a democracy.” He said democracy would now be able to get a “footing” since he does not see democracy “really flourishing” in Guyana.
However, with elections around the corner Trotman said the country has now entered what is known as the “silly season” where anything can be expected.
“All kinds of statements would come from both sides, character attacks and assassination; I have been the victim of one such attack…,” Trotman said in reference to sexual molestation allegations made against him by a man named Johnny Welshman.
He feels that the government should see itself as a caretaker government and therefore it should not do anything “outrageous or outlandish when it comes to spending, entering into new agreements with multi-national companies, issuing contracts for major public works and so forth.
“So in other word just holding the affairs of the state in place until elections day, managing for which ever government is voted in.”
