New polls no solution to parliamentary uncertainties – HPS

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Opposition machinations, the Speaker’s counter-machinations and the Administration’s resolute Parliamentary work have made the sittings of the National Assembly an exercise of great uncertainty and unbelievable spectacle, Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon said on Wednesday.
He was at the time responding to a question regarding the extent to which Government would be willing to continue to entertain the situation; or whether the administration is getting closer to the point where going back to the polls would end the uncertainties.
He explained that the two main constitutional tasks imposed on Parliament and the National Assembly, are Legislation and Oversight, and that it was these two areas which are enjoyed by the opposition, by way of the parliamentary configuration and the opposition one-seat majority.
Dr. Luncheon stated further, that the way these tasks are handled and the resulting impact on legislation along with the oversight of the Executive and the way that is handled causes the generation of anxiety and uncertainty. He added that while there is no doubt that the one seat majority has cultivated the situation, “I don’t believe in the short-term, that there is a broad acceptance that going to the election resolves that.”
The HPS posited that the issues address the format, rules, structure and procedures which are part and parcel of “all the traditions of democratic parliamentary democracies.” He stated that until those issues are resolved in a conventional way, anxiety and uncertainty would persist.
With respect to returning to the polls in the short – term, Dr. Luncheon stated that during the period of preparations for elections, the same Parliament, with the same instability, “would have now, the additional responsibility of grandfathering the pre-electoral period.”

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