Parliamentary democracy in Guyana has been collateral damage in government’s resort to the courts to stave off the effects of the no-confidence motion passed against the David Granger-led administration on December 21 last year,
So said Opposition Leader Bharat Jagdeo at a press conference last week. “Now you have a non-functioning parliament…because they have decided to drag out the whole issue of the no-confidence motion and holding elections. Abusing it, and ruling by decree basically. So now you have almost a year now…when the Parliament has not functioned, and this is in a parliamentary democracy where this is an equal branch of government,” Jagdeo said.
October 21st, 2019 constituted ten months since the passage of the no-confidence motion and in that time, Parliament’s website shows that only four sittings have been held. These sittings were held on 3rd January 2019, 26th April 2019, 15th May 2019, and 23rd May 2019.
