ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, who in August stated he has no intention of “dragging the electoral reform matter up till the subsequent basic election,” says he intends to have the matter go earlier than the general public in January subsequent 12 months.
“I consider by January, we can be able to current to the nation the precise components that we’ll go throughout the first part to advance electoral reform, and thereafter, we are going to go to Parliament to have the legal guidelines enacted and provides the Electoral Fee the authority to proceed,” Skerrit stated.
Over the past nationwide price range debate in August, Skerrit instructed legislators, “I’ll say to the nation once more that I would like electoral reform, and allow us to attempt to get it earlier than the top of the 12 months. Allow us to go to Parliament.
“However all I’ll say to these within the nation, Mr. Speaker, is that I’ve no intention of dragging this electoral reform agenda till the subsequent elections. It’ll occur in Dominica. We are going to come to the Parliament and cross the laws that we have now consensus on on this nation, and this foolishness males are enjoying, dragging this factor has to return to the highest,” Skerrit stated then.
The only real Commissioner on Electoral Reform, Sir Dennis Byron, the previous president of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Courtroom of Justice (CCJ), had been appointed as the only real commissioner advancing the efforts in the direction of electoral reform, a major problem in Dominica with the opposition events, the United Staff Celebration (UWP) and the Dominica Freedom Celebration (DFP) boycotting final December’s basic election.
In June, he wrote to Prime Minister Skerrit and the UWP president Lennox Linton, indicating that he had “accomplished my evaluation of the electoral laws, programs and processes within the Commonwealth of Dominica.
“This completes my task on the development of the electoral course of in Dominica,” Dennis wrote in his June 12 letter.
Because the report was handed over, the federal government has held a sequence of public discussions on the doc, and Prime Minister Skerrit stated his administration is dedicated to electoral reform.
“And so within the first quarter of 2024, you will note an development on this,” he added.
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