{"id":54819,"date":"2021-10-21T23:31:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T03:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54819"},"modified":"2021-10-21T23:31:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T03:31:10","slug":"from-high-drama-to-farce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54819","title":{"rendered":"From high drama to farce"},"content":{"rendered":"

Express Editorial
\nOctober 21, 2021 – trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n

Kamla Persad-Bissessar<\/a>Predictably, the Opposition Leader\u2019s motion to remove the President crashed and burned on the Parliament\u2019s floor with a wide 47-24 margin of defeat.<\/p>\n

From the start, this was a misguided motion that smacked of over-reach and succeeded only in bringing a healthy public \u00addebate on the role of the President to a premature end.
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\nThe guidelines issued by the Speaker on Tuesday were consistent with the constitutional procedure, although this newspaper still holds the view that the Speaker had some latitude under the Electoral College regulations for exercising creative discretion. However, on the face of it, her decision to play by the book is defensible. On the other hand, it is unlikely that the Opposition Leader was unaware of the limitations of the constitutional motion for moving against the President. We can only assume that the declamations about dictatorship were all part of the theatre of Opposition politics.
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Express Editorial October 21, 2021 – trinidadexpress.com Predictably, the Opposition Leader\u2019s motion to remove the President crashed and burned on the Parliament\u2019s floor with a wide 47-24 margin of defeat. From the start, this was a misguided motion that smacked of over-reach and succeeded only in bringing a healthy public \u00addebate on the role of … Continue reading From high drama to farce<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[720,217,30,7,142],"tags":[610,144,1326],"class_list":["post-54819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-parliament","category-pnm","category-politics","category-unc","tag-express","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-paula-mae-weekes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54820,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54819\/revisions\/54820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}