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EBC: No increase to 15 seats until THA bill becomes law
Sunday 21 February 2021
PDP political leader Watson Duke, front left, and deputy political leader Farley Augustine, right, address the media outside the Assembly legislature building after an overnight sit-in Scarborough, Tobago on February 2. The PDP on Friday sent a pre-action protocol letter to the clerk of the assembly calling for lots to be drawn to select a presiding officer. File photo -
THE Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) must wait for the proclamation of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Amendment Bill 2021 as law, before it can begin any exercise to increase electoral districts to 15. The three additional seats is proposed by Government as necessary to facilitate a fresh THA election to break the six-six deadlock which occurred on January 25. The assembly currently has 12 electoral districts.
Chief Secretary Ancil Dennis -
Three THA secretaries who did not seek re-election and were replaced in the assembly have resigned.
On Sunday during a pre-recorded address, THA Chief Secretary Ancil Dennis appealed to the secretaries to do the right and proper thing.
He said, “Notwithstanding what the law says, I am prepared to request the resignation of those secretaries who did not seek re-election and were therefore replaced as assemblymen. I believe that this is the right and proper thing to do in the unique circumstances which we now find ourselves.”
He said “Some of the remaining secretaries in the Executive Council will be assigned additional portfolios to facilitate this change.”
THA deadlock remains: PNM changes presiding officer candidate
Monday 1 February 2021
PNM political leader Tracy Davidson-Celestine, centre, with Chief Secretary Ancil Dennis, left, and Canaan/Bon Accord representative Clarence Jacob at the Assembly Legislature, Scarborough, last week. PHOTO BY JEFF K MAYERS -
The People’s National Movement (PNM) has proposed a new candidate for presiding officer of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA).
The name of the nominee will be revealed at the next meeting of the assembly at 1.30pm on Thursday.
This was the outcome of Monday’s special meeting after the newly-elected assemblymen again failed to elect a presiding officer.
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