It is the President who fixes the date for general elections and given the current mindset of President David Granger there is a risk that he could refuse to dissolve parliament and set a date, according to former Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran.
The politician and commentator also rapped the “less engaged” international community for its “silence” on the “constitutional violation by government.”
“…with Guyana not even qualifying for a statement from an acting Deputy Assistant US Secretary of State, or a Junior British Foreign Office Official, suggests the relative lack of importance attached to constitutional violation by government. The government knows that the tepid diplomatic statements so far are mere taps on the wrist that can be safely ignored,” Ramkarran, a co-founder of the political party ANUG and former Speaker of the National Assembly, wrote in his Sunday Stabroek column yesterday.
