A senior member of Jamaica’s opposition, the Folks’s Nationwide Social gathering (PNP), has speculated that the Andrew Holness administration is planning to postpone the nation’s native authorities elections for a fourth time.
The native authorities elections are due by February 28. It has been postponed thrice since 2020, when it ought to have been held. The election, by legislation, is to be held each 4 years. It was final held in 2016.
Normal Secretary of the PNP, Dr. Dayton Campbell claimed that sources have indicated that there’s a plan by the federal government to once more postpone the native authorities election till after the nationwide price range debate in March.
Campbell, who was talking on Monday throughout a press convention, mentioned the federal government’s plan is to “proceed this tour of creating wild guarantees to the folks of Jamaica.”
Over the weekend, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, the chief of the governing Jamaica Labour Social gathering (JLP), declared that his get together was able to contest the elections.
However Campbell asserted that if the JLP was prepared, there can be no delay in saying the date.
“The reality is that in the event that they have been so assured, they’d have introduced an election. A celebration that’s assured of profitable an election doesn’t proceed to postpone it serially,” he mentioned.
Campbell urged the federal government to not trample on the democratic course of “that we fought laborious for as a rustic, and announce the (date for) the native authorities election.”
Within the meantime, he mentioned that the PNP has been making its personal preparations to safe a win.
“We’re assured that the folks of Jamaica are calling for a change, and we’re assured that that change begins with the native authorities election, which, after they name it, we’ll win it,” he declared.
The Electoral Workplace of Jamaica mentioned additionally it is in preparation, with the recruitment of election-day employees at the moment underway.
