{"id":54838,"date":"2021-10-27T00:04:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T04:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54838"},"modified":"2021-10-27T00:04:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T04:04:02","slug":"ramesh-speaker-upheld-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54838","title":{"rendered":"Ramesh: Speaker upheld the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ramesh: Speaker upheld the Constitution during motion on President<\/BIG><\/em><\/p>\n

By Renuka Singh
\nOctober 26 2021 – guardian.co.tt<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Ramesh<\/a>Senior Counsel Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj has defended House Speaker Brigid Annisette-George\u2019s handling of last Thursday\u2019s motion by the Opposition to remove President Paula-Mae Weekes.<\/p>\n

While the Opposition clamoured for the motion to be debated and attacked Annissette-George for refusing to allow it, Maharaj said the Constitution does not allow for a debate until the matter is passed by a two-thirds majority of the Electoral College.
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\nThe Opposition never got that far as the motion only received 24 votes in favour and 47 against by the Electoral College, around one-third of the votes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Electoral College, therefore, is the body to decide whether an investigation is to proceed by a tribunal constituted to investigate the complaint,\u201d Maharaj said in a statement.
\nFull Article : guardian.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ramesh: Speaker upheld the Constitution during motion on President By Renuka Singh October 26 2021 – guardian.co.tt Senior Counsel Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj has defended House Speaker Brigid Annisette-George\u2019s handling of last Thursday\u2019s motion by the Opposition to remove President Paula-Mae Weekes. While the Opposition clamoured for the motion to be debated and attacked Annissette-George for … Continue reading Ramesh: Speaker upheld the Constitution<\/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":[1,217,30,7,142],"tags":[1587,144,1326,216,49],"class_list":["post-54838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-parliament","category-pnm","category-politics","category-unc","tag-brigid-annisette-george","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-paula-mae-weekes","tag-ramesh-lawrence-maharaj","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54838","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=54838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54839,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54838\/revisions\/54839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}