{"id":8993,"date":"2015-06-13T11:32:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8993"},"modified":"2015-06-13T11:32:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:32:36","slug":"pp-will-be-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8993","title":{"rendered":"PP WILL BE BACK"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Andre Bagoo
\nJune 13, 2015 – newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n

PP WILL BE BACK<\/a>PRIME MINISTER Kamla Persad-Bissessar, 63, yesterday announced the date of the general election as September 7.<\/p>\n

In a statement at the House of Representatives, the Prime Minister informed the nation that she would advise President Anthony Carmona, \u201cto dissolve Parliament at midnight on Wednesday 17th June, 2015\u201d – a move which will bring to an end the Tenth Parliament and clear the way for the Eleventh.<\/p>\n

In announcing the date of the election, Persad-Bissessar said her Government was the first under the Republican Constitution to serve its full term. She said it did so despite the expectations of the Opposition.
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\n\u201cMr Speaker the People\u2019s Partnership Government is ready to return to the voters of Trinidad and Tobago,\u201d the Prime Minister said in her 20-minute statement delivered at 2.30pm, moments before Government Whip Dr Roodal Moonilal invoked centuries of Westminster tradition and adjourned the House of Representatives sine die or with no fixed date.<\/p>\n

Of the Opposition PNM, Persad-Bissessar said, \u201cThey told the electorate in 2010, 2011, 2012, in every year that we would not last more than a few weeks in government, then that became a few months, then it became a year and after that they continued to call for early elections on a regular basis because their political strategy to remove their leader in 2010 and seek to come to power because they expected us to collapse early failed to materialise. That strategy backfired. They got rid of their leader in 2010, but they could not get rid of us.\u201d The Tenth Parliament sat a total of 199 times.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister\u2019s Parliament announcement differed from what obtained in 2010, when then Prime Minister Patrick Manning announced the dissolution of the Ninth Parliament by way of a press release on April 8, 2010, with the date following in another press release on April 16, 2010.<\/p>\n

Moments after the Prime Minister\u2019s Parliament announcement there were scenes of jubilation and camaraderie between members of the Government and the Opposition gathered at the International Financial Centre, Wrightson Road, Port-of-Spain. Mps shook hands, hugged and kissed, made hi-fives and greeted each other with a cordiality that seemed completely at odds with the acrimony which characterised the Tenth Parliament.<\/p>\n

After making her announcement, as she mingled with MPs in the chamber and paused for photographs, Persad-Bissessar was asked by media photographers to give a wave.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are coming back,\u201d the Prime Minister said, smiling. \u201cWe are not saying goodbye.\u201d<\/p>\n

Absent from the proceedings were: suspended Opposition Leader and Diego Martin West MP Dr Keith Rowley, and San Fernando East MP and former Prime Minister, Patrick Manning, the longest-serving MP who will not be seeking re-election to the Eleventh Parliament.<\/p>\n

The election date came as the UNC announced the close of nominations for persons seeking to be screened by the party to contest seats, with a deadline of June 26 set.<\/p>\n

The party also announced the resumption of its Monday Night Forum with a rally at Rienzi Complex, Couva, next week.<\/p>\n

All members of the Government – including senators – had gathered in the Parliament chamber for the 1.30 pm sitting, including Senators, many of whom came to lay the final papers they would be required to table for the term. In total, 101 papers were tabled in compliance with statutes and regulations for bodies ranging from the Zoological Society of Trinidad and Tobago to the National Helicopter Services Limited.<\/p>\n

Source: www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,212570.html<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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