EDITOR, The Tribune.
THE use of the Constitution yesterday by the FNM MP’s, the seven, was totally in compliant with the Constitution Article 82 clause 4.
Editor, very clearly there seems to be a very serious clash between the FNM, Party, Constitution and the Bahamas Constitution as Article 82 clause 2 places the onus total governing power on the support of the elected members of the majority Opposition party to be Leader of Opposition.
Reading the Constitution you cannot have a Leader of a majority Opposition who does not hold the support of the majority of the elected MPs of that party.
Here is the clash and the FNM has to amend their Constitution to comply with the Bahamas Constitution and likewise all other political parties if the same occurs. If this occurred in Westminster, Hon Hubert Minnis would have resigned immediately.
A political Party can have a Chairman, but the Leader has to be the de facto person who has the majority of support of the ejected MP’s it is the MP’s who garnished the votes and were elected.
You have a ridiculous issue now - to be compliant with the Bahamas Constitution Hon Loretta Butler-Turner is the Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition no more no less - Dr Minnis is the Leader of the FNM Party not supported by the majority of the FNM MP’s. This, Editor, simply cannot fly and the FNM has no alternative but to change their Constitution to comply with the superior Bahamas Constitution.
The political leadership has to be tied to who retains the support of the majority of those elected.
Dr Minnis do the honourable thing and resign forthwith and allow compliance with the Bahamas Constitution to be respected.
S HUTCHINSON
Nassau,
December 8, 2016.
Comments
banker 9 years ago
Bosh -- the resultant actions are from a spoiled gussie mae who has a too high opinion of herself and in the cold hard light of rationalism, is a despicable person.
sheeprunner12 9 years ago
What happens in Parliament stays in Parliament ....... Mackey Street has no control over Parliament until after election day (if any)
DDK 9 years ago
True that!
Well_mudda_take_sic 9 years ago
Most Bahamians fail to understand that a UK styled Westminster parliamentary system of government has been ill-suited for an independent Bahamas since July 10, 1973. Pindling quickly realized that it was all too easy for the leader of a political party to gain absolute control over the party by fully stacking the party's leadership apparatus with small minded loyal supporters and cronies who would always put their party leader above the well being of the Bahamas and its people. Our political parties do not have a true democratic purging mechanism for the party leader who invariably successfully hijacks the entire leadership apparatus of the party in order to cement his/her position as party leader with unquestionable and unlimited authority to remain in that de facto dictator role.
Hubbigity, Crooked Christie and the Dimwitted Doc are all from Pindling's school of thinking when it comes to gaining and retaining absolute control over the leadership apparatus of their political party, thereby capitalizing on one of the key weaknesses within our ill-suited system of government. Bahamians need to wake up to the fact that the political parties will always serve the hijacker's interests in obtaining unchecked power, with no built-in democratic mechanism for booting the hijacker when necessary for the good of the party and the Bahamian people.
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