Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley yesterday criticised Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s hurried decision to reform the Municipal Corporations Act 1990 before the October 21 polls.
He said, “Proportional representation is not to be sprung upon the population like a thief in the night, on the eve of an election, which the Government is guaranteed to lose.”
Rowley said he also notes the action by the Peoples’ Partnership Government to announce this decision on their way to Parliament, without even the courtesy of informing the Opposition or allowing even cursory public discourse on this fundamental matter.