A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Tuesday said its first priority is to get government to hold long-delayed Local Government Elections (LGE) and would not mind national elections being pushed back- a posture the Alliance For Change (AFC) calls “strange.”
“I think if we are thinking it through logically and if the President does accede to the demands then we can’t have a problem because then we would have already acted based on our request,” Shadow Local Government Minister, Ronald Bulkan told Demerara Waves Online News.
He stressed that APNU’s focus was on fixing the administratively dilapidated local government system in towns and villages that have led to poor delivery of basic services to communities. “We are thinking about people’s welfare, we are not thinking about getting into office which is what the PPP might want to say,”
He was at pains to justify his parliamentary coalition’s six-day ultimatum on President Donald Ramotar for him to call LGE although APNU has agreed to support the Alliance For Change’s (AFC)-sponsored No Confidence Motion that could come up for debate after the House ends its parliamentary recess on October 10,2014.
Bulkan hesitated and continued to dodge direct questions about whether APNU preferred LGE or general elections.
excerpts from demerarawaves