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THE Parliamentary recess is over and government is fully prepared to resume the pursuance of its legislative agenda.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon, at his post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President, said that thus far, the Tenth Parliament has become an occasion for the most concentrated period of abandonment of established parliamentary practices and norms. “Cabinet contends that this heresy has spawned consequences that are yet to be elucidated, much less accommodated. The legislative practices are being subjected to arbitrary revision; existing legislation has been targeted for reforms and more pervasively, PPP/C MPs and Cabinet ministers have and are being singled out and assaulted unjustly in the media,” the Cabinet Secretary lamented.
He affirmed that government is even more prepared than ever to face this struggle head on, noting that the conventions that surround parliamentary practices have, over the decades of parliamentary democracy, addressed all of the nuances of minority parliaments.
He also mentioned that pronouncements on minority parliaments are included in all the systems that are in place to deal with parliamentary democracy.
“When we speak about breaches, we are speaking about the totality of parliamentary practices, which attend majoritarian and minority parliaments. I don’t believe that we can conjure some notion of a ‘tabula rasa’ that nothing has been written and that Trotman (Speaker) and former Brigadier Granger and their ilk are now writing for the world, some prescription on how to deal with minority parliaments,” he said.
He lamented that cabinet members have been subjected to a lot of unfair criticisms based on “misadventures” by opposition elements and sections of the media, utterances which he said are going to be rehashed at some point when Parliament recommences from the same people and the same points of view. (GINA)
Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon, at his post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President, said that thus far, the Tenth Parliament has become an occasion for the most concentrated period of abandonment of established parliamentary practices and norms. “Cabinet contends that this heresy has spawned consequences that are yet to be elucidated, much less accommodated. The legislative practices are being subjected to arbitrary revision; existing legislation has been targeted for reforms and more pervasively, PPP/C MPs and Cabinet ministers have and are being singled out and assaulted unjustly in the media,” the Cabinet Secretary lamented.
He affirmed that government is even more prepared than ever to face this struggle head on, noting that the conventions that surround parliamentary practices have, over the decades of parliamentary democracy, addressed all of the nuances of minority parliaments.
He also mentioned that pronouncements on minority parliaments are included in all the systems that are in place to deal with parliamentary democracy.
“When we speak about breaches, we are speaking about the totality of parliamentary practices, which attend majoritarian and minority parliaments. I don’t believe that we can conjure some notion of a ‘tabula rasa’ that nothing has been written and that Trotman (Speaker) and former Brigadier Granger and their ilk are now writing for the world, some prescription on how to deal with minority parliaments,” he said.
He lamented that cabinet members have been subjected to a lot of unfair criticisms based on “misadventures” by opposition elements and sections of the media, utterances which he said are going to be rehashed at some point when Parliament recommences from the same people and the same points of view. (GINA)
