Dear Editor,
The role of any Opposition that is worth its weight in salt, is to maintain a sense of No Confidence in the Government. The ANPU+AFC opposition did it to the Ramotar administration; remember? So what the PPP did against the Coalition, is brilliant; if only because what the opposition did against the then PPP government, was equally as brilliant.
What is dumb, is a Constitution that allows for a simple majority of the parliamentary members to so “brilliantly” affect the proper functioning of the country. How can one vote (whether interpreted as absolute or simple) be allowed to stymie the governance of an entire government? And what is dumber, is that the very people (both sides) who were negatively affected by the dumb Constitution, refused to make constitutional reform a priority and are preparing to go back to elections with the possibility of the very same thing happening all over again: for the third time.
Is it wrong to conclude that like the Constitution, the parliamentarians are also dumb? Actually, can we not conclude that we who vote for the dumb parliamentarians, are the dumbest?
Yours faithfully,
Wendell Jeffrey
