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What Crisis?

December 13, 2000

Sir/Madam,

The UNC are crying about “hiatus in governance” and constitutional crisis if the President does not immediately appoint Panday as Prime Minister.

Well, I’m getting a little tired of politicians trying to manipulation people’s emotions on the basis of ignorance and the nine-day wonder mentality they have tried so hard to cultivate.

Are we all supposed to have collective amnesia about the fact that in 1995 when it was 17-17-2 it took about a week before Panday and the leader of NAR struck their “heads of agreement” and the UNC was able to take office.

Everyone was so glad that there was no crisis for that period of several days between the election and formation of a government.

So what is so different now if the period is now for a different reason but of about the same duration?

As a lawyer the leader of the UNC must know that it may be best to preserve the status quo while legal action is going on. The PNM on the other hand cannot dilly dally about the matter.

So just as in 1995, the public service who they all love to hate will carry the country in the brief interlude.

The power-hungry self-serving vote catchers might do well to stop crying wolf and try to become statesmen and try and resolve a problem rather than erecting apparitions to inflame passions which they have already unnecessarily done in the whole silly season of the campaign.

HOMEPAGE

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