Most of those idiots dont understand what the bill does and that the bill was presented now as a successful distraction from the Life Sports Programme issue that has been exposing how much corruption government ministers have been involved in. The 3 main things that the Constitutional Amendment Bill is meant to do:- 1. Limiting the PM to serving two terms in office. This deprives the T&T public and Ruling Party electorate of the widest choice of leaders if they think a particular PM has done a great job as leader of the ruling party and country and is a better choice as leader than any of their colleagues. Why deprive the electorate of the choice if they are pleased with a PMs performance and want them in power for more than two terms? 2. Power of recall of MPs. As presented in the bill this power of recall is flawed as it needs more votes than is used to elect an MP plus it is only effective after the MP has served 3 years. What use is that if an MP is performing ineffectively and the constituents want to remove them after 6 months to a year of non-performance? 3. The 2nd Elections Run-off. Apart from being extra costly and time consuming to the economy of the country is just a way of allowing one of the bigger parties to steal and buy votes from one of the smaller parties when they could not get the required number of votes to win the election outright. This re-run as well as denying the choice of many of the voters for one of the smaller parties can lead to corruption by one of the bigger parties passing money and trying to buy votes from the smaller parties. It will also mean that smaller parties will never be able to grow and become a large major party leading to a dictatorship led by the party with the most bribery money. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> A referendum should be given to the T&T public on all the items on the bill before the bill was even considered in the lower house. Items 1. & 2. of the bill are clearly red-herrings and item 3. is really the item that the government is most interested in bringing into effect to accommodate their intentions of buying the elections as they now realize that they are not going to win the elections outright based on their current track record. With this in mind the Bill should be stopped by members of the upper house or the T&T President should refuse to sign the bill into law because it has clearly been rushed thru the lower and upper houses in an unconstitutional manner without proper public consultation on the items being tampered with. youtube/watch?v=lKZAMxRaOL4
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 02:29:31 +0000
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