With general elections likely within the next three months, former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran has urged government to exercise caution in spending the budgetary allocations for 2019.
Writing in his Accountability Watch column in today’s Stabroek News, Goolsarran said given that the APNU+AFC government’s mandate “expires in three months’ time,” it has to exercise extreme caution in how it utilises the budgetary allocations for 2019 to enable any new government to have enough financial resources to manage the resources of the State for the remaining nine months.
The APNU+AFC government lost a confidence vote in the National Assembly on December 21 but has since said that it will submit a legal brief to Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Barton Scotland contending that he erred in ruling that the PPP/C-sponsored no-confidence motion was carried. The government has said that it is examining all legal options in relation to the vote but should its arguments be dismissed, elections would have to be held within three months.
