The combined opposition of a Partnership for National Unity (APNU)and Alliance for Change (AFC)on Thursday voted against a supplementary budget taken for a second time to the house by the government.
Supplementary Financial paper #7 which was taken to the house on February and a section was passed however APNU’s Carl Greenidge had called on Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh to withdraw the paper and have it resubmitted with more details in keeping with the Financial Management and Accountability Act (FMAA).
The paper was withdrawn and resubmitted on Thursday, however the opposition voted against the paper.
According to government officials, this latest action flies in the face of the combined opposition promise to restore the GY$20.9B cut from the budget by way of supplementary budget.
Only Wednesday president Donald Ramotar said that he will not trust the opposition’s promise.
” They really can’t be serious to say that we can resort to supplementary budget and we can’t even get a meeting with them on the issue and then also today tomorrow we will see the acid test of how serious they are, because we have also put a paper, financial paper seven in parliament to pass and they rejected it, we are bringing it back again now, so this is the acid test to see if they are really really serious about coming with supplementary budget to see how they will deal with paper seven that is going to be there I think tomorrow ( Thursday)” Ramotar said.