Gov’t says to submit brief to Speaker on confidence vote

Dr. Barton Scotland

The Guyana Government yesterday announced that it will be submitting a  brief to the Speaker of the National Assembly ad-dressing the consequences of the December 21 no confidence vote against it and added that it remains committed to the rule of law.

The statement came following growing concerns that the government will try to overturn the motion of no-confidence which requires general elections to be convened within 90 days and that it was preparing to go to court to achieve this.

In the statement yesterday, the government said it will shortly submit to the Speaker of the National Assembly Dr. Barton Scotland a Brief on the outcome of the December 21 sitting. A sitting of the National Assembly has been scheduled for January 3rd. The opposition PPP/C has said that sittings should only be convened for the purposes of enabling elections or related matters and nothing else.