Former acting Chief Justice Ian Chang has ruled that APNU+AFC ministers Winston Felix and Keith Scott cannot continue to sit as non-elected members in the National Assembly since they were both elected as part of the coalition’s list of national candidates.
“The court can find no legal or constitutional basis on which they can claim that right to sit in the Assembly, whether as voting or non-voting members thereof – despite their appointed status as executive Ministers of Government,” Justice Chang wrote in his ruling, which was delivered from the bench yesterday at the High Court, in Georgetown.
On June 10, the first day of the sitting of the 11th Parliament, the PPP/C had called on Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs to not have the oath administered to Felix, who is Minister of Citizenship, and Scott, who is
