ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Opposition Chief Jesmar Paul-Victor says she has written to President Sylvanie Burton, requesting that she “instantly revoke” the appointment of Sean Douglas as an opposition legislator.
Paul-Victor, one in all two unbiased candidates to have gained seats within the common elections final December, gave no cause for looking for the elimination of Douglas, a former press secretary to 2 former prime ministers.
However she instructed the Nature Isle Information (NIN) that she had written to President Burton instructing her to “revoke with instant impact the appointment of Senator Sean Douglas.”
Douglas wouldn’t touch upon his elimination from the Senate, saying, “At the moment, it’s untimely for me to talk on the matter ask the one who requested that the appointment be revoked.”
Paul-Victor appointed Douglas as a Senator after the December 2022 common elections that had been boycotted by the principle opposition United Staff Occasion (UWP) and the minor Dominica Freedom Occasion (DFP).
“I can affirm to you that I’ve written to the President of Dominica asking her to revoke the appointment of Senator Sean Douglas instantly,” Paul-Victor mentioned, including that the letter was dated November 6, 2023.
She mentioned that Sje and her “group are in discussions” relating to a alternative for Douglas, who, through the vote to elect the brand new head of state in September, had questioned whether or not Burton had met the necessities below the Dominica Structure to be nominated, claiming that she was nonetheless employed as a senior public servant.
“The nominee has engaged in sure acts which offend the Public Service Act, through which if she is President warrant her elimination from workplace and as such the Home mustn’t proceed on the election of the President as Sylvanie Burton being a candidate or nominee,” he mentioned.
However Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, who lamented that there had not been a consensus within the nomination for the place of the island’s twelfth head of state since independence in 1978, questioned the information being offered by Douglas.
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