Mars posted:

ksazma posted:

Mars posted:

 

Local Government Elections are a constitutional requirement and yes they do matter. The PPP violated the constitution by suppressing elections when they were due. That is not democracy by any standard. 

According to the constitution, when are local government elections due?

http://www.gecom.org.gy/faq.html

Q23. Are there provisions in the law which permit or require Regional and/or Local Government Elections to be held on the same day?
Regional Elections are usually held on the same day as National Elections only. Local Government elections are lawfully due every four years.

In that case, local elections should have been held when they were due. Do we know for a fact that they were suppressed by the PPP? Why would the PPP suppress local elections while holding general elections on time where most of the marbles are gain or lost?

ksazma posted:

Mars posted:

ksazma posted:

Mars posted:

 

Local Government Elections are a constitutional requirement and yes they do matter. The PPP violated the constitution by suppressing elections when they were due. That is not democracy by any standard. 

According to the constitution, when are local government elections due?

http://www.gecom.org.gy/faq.html

Q23. Are there provisions in the law which permit or require Regional and/or Local Government Elections to be held on the same day?
Regional Elections are usually held on the same day as National Elections only. Local Government elections are lawfully due every four years.

In that case, local elections should have been held when they were due. Do we know for a fact that they were suppressed by the PPP? Why would the PPP suppress local elections while holding general elections on time where most of the marbles are gain or lost?

They were most definitely suppressed by the PPP. I'm not sure what they thought they would gain by putting them off indefinitely. Maybe they were happy with the people in the NDC's and at the GT City Hall. They probably thought that dealing with Hammie was a lesser evil than the PNC in the early years when Hammie had left the PNC.

Mars posted:

 

They were most definitely suppressed by the PPP. I'm not sure what they thought they would gain by putting them off indefinitely. Maybe they were happy with the people in the NDC's and at the GT City Hall. They probably thought that dealing with Hammie was a lesser evil than the PNC in the early years when Hammie had left the PNC.

In that case I will affix an asterisk when I comment on the PPP elections practices. That said, the PNC's elections practice still reeked of wickedness.

Local government elections were held in March last year. They cannot be due next year or 2020. Next year will be 2 years after 2016 elections. More likely in 2019.

Gilbakka posted:

Local government elections were held in March last year. They cannot be due next year or 2020. Next year will be 2 years after 2016 elections. More likely in 2019.

By 2019 Patterson will probably sign with the pen cover.

Gilbakka posted:

 

 

Not so fast, sir. 

If the PPP horn blows and you must run back to the PPP massa go ahead.  It merely shows why many never trusted the Moses faction in the first place.

The emphasis should be on insisting that the constitution be CHANGED and that this CHANGE occurs BEFORE the elections.  In other words within the next 2 1/2 years.

Any other discussion is a deflection of the fact that Jagdeo has NO intention to do this.  He sent up a flawed list, based on a flawed constitution and now screams that Granger acted illegally.

Granger did NOT act illegally meaning that its the constitution which should be viewed as being illegal.

But rush back to Jagdeo and crown him king. Let him be king under a FLAWED constitution.