THE People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo, said the party will not be attending sittings of the National Assembly while the appeal of the no-confidence motion is pending at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

Jagdeo, who is also Opposition Leader, made the announcement in a facebook post on Sunday.
The Court of Appeal on Friday ruled that the no-confidence motion was not validly passed in the National Assembly, thereby overturning the High Court’s decision of Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire.

Before a packed courtroom, Chancellor of the Judiciary (ag) Yonette Cummings-Edwards and Justice of Appeal Dawn Gregory ruled that the Opposition needed 34 votes to defeat the Government and not 33.

Justice Rishi Persaud, however, had a dissenting opinion. The decision was arrived at in the appeal cases of ‘The Attorney General v Christopher Ram and others,’ and ‘The Attorney General v The Speaker of the National Assembly and others’ brought by the government through the Attorney General, Basil Williams.