Alliance for Change (AFC) Leader Raphael Trotman yesterday said he is trying to confirm the party’s parliamentarians who have dual citizenship and said that those persons cannot be publicly named without the party’s consent.
“I am in the process of verifying which MPs representing the AFC have dual citizenship,” Trotman said. The issue of MPs with dual citizenship took centre stage following a `yes’ vote from government parliamentarian Charrandass Persaud, who is the holder of a Canadian passport, which resulted in the Opposition PPP/C’s no confidence motion being declared passed on December 21. Following the vote he left the country and is now in Canada
According to Article 155 (1) (a) “No person shall be qualified for election as a member of the National Assembly who is, by virtue of his or her own act, under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power or state.”
