HEAD of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon said Wednesday that based on developments over the past few days, he is not sure that there is a “consolidated view” of what the AFC’s ‘No-Confidence’ motion is all about.

The motion was formally handed over to Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs by AFC’s General Secretary, David Patterson. It was proposed by Vice-Chairman Moses Nagamootoo and seconded by Executive Member Cathy Hughes.

“Be it resolved that this National Assembly has no confidence in the Government,” reads the first page of the document.

Dr. Luncheon spoke to reporters Wednesday on the issue following his usual post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President in Georgetown.
“One that started out as a no-confidence motion has morphed into a number of different possibilities and I’m not even certain in my mind, listening to what is being said in the media, what is being attributed to Nagamootoo, what’s being attributed to Granger, that indeed, there is some consolidated view of what this no confidence motion is all about.

“So it’s kind of difficult to sit down and have a full discussion when for all intents and purposes…every day we are getting a different interpretation,” Luncheon remarked.

He reminded that the acceptability of the motion rests with the Speaker. “And I don’t believe there is any doubt in the Speaker’s mind about the motion. He has pronounced on this matter.”
Meanwhile, the notion of a no-confidence motion was first voiced by Nagamootoo in mid-June, when he indicated that the AFC was taking that course of action.
A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) subsequently endorsed this proposal for serious consideration.
Opposition leader Brigadier (rtd) David Granger confirmed APNU’s support for the AFC’s no-confidence motion against the Government, and together the combined Opposition is expected to address the motion in October, when the National Assembly comes out of recess.
Luncheon, at a previous press conference, had said a call for snap elections from the Head of State during the two-month recess, before the motion is tabled, is not impossible. “Nothing is impossible; nothing is impossible…I don’t believe it is a question of strategy that determines the response to a no-confidence motion,” he had said.

(By Telesha Ramnarine)