‘Opposition impasse will resolve itself!’ – Premier Smith
He was speaking at a press conference held in his conference room at the Central Administration Building today July 16, 2015.
“Once that is done the person that is decided on as the Leader of the Opposition will become the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.
At the last sitting of the House of Assembly on Tuesday July 14, 2015, Premier Smith had named the members of the Public Accounts Committee, saying that a Chairman would be named when the Leader of the Opposition is appointed.
Meanwhile the Governor His Excellency John S. Duncan had given a month and a day for the two Opposition members to come to a decision regarding who will be the Opposition Leader, a post just vacated by Honourable Ralph T. O’Neal OBE a little over one month ago at the June 8, 2015 general elections.
The Premier said what usually happens is the party to which the members belong will select a leader for that party and usually that leader is the one that will be the Premier of the Virgin Islands once the elections had been won by that party.
“In the event that the members elected cannot make a decision then the Governor will have to make a determination,” he said.
On June 18, 2015 Governor Duncan said it would be a retrograde step in the development of democracy in the Virgin Islands for the Governor to be required to impose a solution in this matter without allowing the people of the Virgin Islands and their elected representatives a further window of reflection to agree a solution.
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