Despite just winning one seat on the city council via proportional representation in Friday’s Local Government Elections (LGE), leader of Team Benschop for Mayor, Mark Benschop, said the seat will be rotated among members of the group and used to fight for the disempowered in Georgetown.
“We have decided, and I have told my team, that the one seat doesn’t belong to me and doesn’t belong to any one individual but Team Benschop. It belongs to the group and every single one of us worked very hard for it and as a result that one seat is not going to be occupied for me for the entire three years or by any one for the entire period, in fact, I don’t even think anyone will occupy it for one year,” Benschop told Stabroek News yesterday, stating that his team has made the decision to implement a rotation system. He said that the first and second persons will serve six months each and the others will serve the remaining two years for three months each. It is unclear whether the rules governing the election will permit this.
“Who serves first has not yet been decided but my take is that my preference is that we put one of our female candidates to open our batting … because we have a lot of competent female candidates,” Benschop said.
Benschop, who lost the First-Past-The-Post contest in Constituency 14 to APNU+AFC’s Sherod Duncan,
