A High Court writ was Monday filed challenging the constitutionality of Guyana’s two-term presidential term limit.
Filed by Cedric Richardson against the Attorney General, Anil Nandlall and the Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman the motion seeks to scrap the term limit clause in the Constitution.
The Motion is filed by Attorney-at-Law, Shawn Allicock.
The Attorney General confirmed to Caribbean News Desk that he is a respondent in the matter for which no date has been fixed. “My peripheral reading of it is that it concerns the interpretation of a few articles of the Constitution unrelated to elections and the recent events,” he added. He could not immediately say whether Richardson's case has good grounds.
Asked whether someone, who may harbor the desire for running for a third term, should await the outcome of the Constitutional case, he opted to say that a person is named a presidential candidate by his political party. Nandlall could not say if the governing party might wish to change its candidate if Richardson wins his case.
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