General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Clement Rohee yesterday said the party won’t be attending Thursday’s sitting of Parliament and he fended off questions over whether its Central Committee had voted in favour of former President Bharrat Jagdeo being the Leader of the Opposition whenever the PPP/C takes up its seats.
Stabroek News has been told that in an informal vote last week, Jagdeo trounced immediate past president and former long-serving General Secretary Donald Ramotar in relation to who would be the opposition leader.
Stabroek News spoke with Ramotar as he was entering Freedom House yesterday after Rohee’s press briefing and he was also asked about the central committee’s vote at which point he chuckled. As he was walking away the
