In the wake of lingering perceptions that former president Bharrat Jagdeo wants to make another bid for the presidency, his successor Donald Ramotar insists that the two-term presidential term limit is best for Guyana.
“I think with two terms it’s enough for any president,” Ramotar told Stabroek News in an exclusive interview yesterday.
Ramotar made his position known, even as an appeal of a High Court decision that ruled that the presidential term limit is unconstitutional is pending.
Cedric Richardson, the defendant in the appeal, had petitioned the court on the question of the legality of the presidential term limit created by amendments to Article 90 of the constitution that were enacted in 2001 after the bipartisan constitution reform process. He had argued that
