WHILE President, David Granger has announced a date for the holding of new elections, he will not, at this stage, dissolve Parliament since the law states that an election of members of the National Assembly shall be held within three months after the dissolution of Parliament.

Even as the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) has refused to return to the National Assembly to grant the Constitutional extension for the holding of elections on March 2, 2020, People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Executive Member, Aubrey Norton said, on Friday, that, “Parliament will be dissolved at the right time”.

At the party’s press conference, he quoted Article 61 of the Constitution which states: “An election of members of the National Assembly under article 60 (2) shall be held on such day within three months after every dissolution of Parliament as the President shall appoint by Proclamation.”

The same was highlighted even as Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, claims the government wants the extension for reason for legal coverage for “all the criminal acts” committed during the period of the passing of the no-confidence motion to the naming of an elections date.

However, on Friday, Norton slammed the PPP for utilising a pretence respect for Guyana’s Constitution as a campaign ploy. “The PNCR is aware that the PPP as a government did not honour our Constitution when it refused to have the then Prime Minister perform the constitutional function as Leader of Government’s business in the National Assembly and to place the lotto funds into the Consolidated Fund, inter alia. We have brought that lawless period to an end,” Norton said, reading a statement on behalf the party.

The PNCR Executive said that the days of trampling the rights of the Guyanese people are

over and citizens can expect that, despite the opposition’s uncooperative position, President David Granger will pave the way for credible elections in the country. Furthermore, he stated that the PNCR is ready and well equipped to defeat the PPP again in the coming elections.

He stated, “We are prepared and will defeat the PPP, whose shameful record of lawlessness, dishonesty, arbitrary use of power against anyone who disagreed with them, contempt for the people of Guyana, collaborating with drug traffickers, enrichment of their friends and families and the destruction of our law enforcement agencies, so that the lawless can dominate our society, will not appeal to the people of Guyana.”

The PNCR now urges all Guyanese to participate in the upcoming claims and objection period towards the creation of a clean the list free of the “many phantoms that have been placed there during PPP misrule of Guyana.”