{"id":3298,"date":"2011-12-25T01:45:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T06:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2011-12-25T01:45:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T06:45:03","slug":"bemused-at-the-ppps-antics-over-the-appointment-of-speaker-kaieteur-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=3298","title":{"rendered":"Bemused at the PPP\u2019s antics over the appointment of Speaker (Kaieteur News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dear Editor,<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The AFC is bemused at the PPP\u2019s antics regarding the appointment of\u00a0 Speaker. They have to understand that the electorate has spoken and none of the parties should treat their mandates lightly, or believe that it can be bargained with, or compromised.<\/p>\n<p>The PPP has to also understand that there is a new Order and that there has been a change. They have to get used to the fact that they don\u2019t control everything any longer.<\/p>\n<p>The argument that they are entitled to the speaker\u2019s chair based on Commonwealth precedent is a very disingenuous argument when one considers that we are operating in a hybrid of the Westminster system where we have an executive president.<\/p>\n<p>Under the doctrine of separation of powers it is a nonsense for the PPP to want to control both the executive and the legislature when they only won the executive.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition would be guilty of the greatest abdication of responsibility and betrayal of the people\u2019s trust if we gave up the Chairmanship of the Assembly\u2019s affairs to the PPP.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Raphael Trotman<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, The AFC is bemused at the PPP\u2019s antics regarding the appointment of\u00a0 Speaker. They have to understand that the electorate has spoken and none of the parties should treat their mandates lightly, or believe that it can be bargained with, or compromised. The PPP has to also understand that there is a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image001-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4F7T1-Rc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}