As the National Assembly prepares to debate the 2019 budgetary estimates, opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo has signaled that the PPP/C intends to challenge the presence of Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo in the House.
On Friday, Jagdeo told the House that Nagamootoo, while performing the duties of President, was “squatting” as a member of the National Assembly.
“We have had this Prime Minister come here over and over, when he is acting as president, in violation of our constitution, squatting in the Parliament, contrary to the practice of the past and we have allowed this to happen. We plan, Mr. Speaker, to raise this on Monday when we come to consider the estimates,” Jagdeo said referencing articles 96 and 178 (4) of the Constitution.
