President’s visits to Parliament are an imposition – Opposition Leader

President’s visits to Parliament are an imposition – Opposition Leader

Nov 06, 2016 News 0 Comments

– Says, “If talk was valued anything and used to change lives, this government would get the prize for it.”
Even though Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, is appreciative of President David Granger’s recent

address to the Parliament, he is of the belief that President Granger is an imposition on the National Assembly.
The former President made this remark as he contributed to the debate on Granger’s October address to the Parliament.
Jagdeo in his opening remarks on Friday said that “if anything is comatose, it is this government.”
He said, too, that a speech by any Head of State must be taken seriously. Jagdeo said that in most jurisdictions around the world, there is a particular approach to these speeches.
The Opposition Leader said that these speeches are given adequate time to be debated and there is a protocol following that debate.