“Roberts won’t serve another full term as Chairman” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “The PLP constitution requires that a convention be held every year, opening all positions of the party.

The last PLP convention was in 2009

Roberts has been chairman since then.

A convention planned for November 2015 was postponed in the aftermath of Hurricane Joaquin, and scheduled for April 2016.

The party announced another postponement earlier this year and set a new date in November.”

Asked whether the party was stifling democracy by not holding conventions where leadership and other positions could be challenged on a fair and regular basis, Roberts said, ‘No”.

‘The constitution of the party also gives the governing body, the National General Council, the right to bury the conventions of the party,” he said.

‘And the delays in conventions of the party have been approved by the National General Council of the party.  So it is fully in compliance with the constitution of the party.”

Whereas the party conventions are where leadership and other party positions as challenged, it also a forum where bye-laws can also be challenged and/or amended; such as the right for the National General Council to be able to ‘bury the convention of the party’.  This practice; the voice of the few stifling the voice of the many is highly undemocratic; unless there is an absolute reason to do so, the hurricane being one.

It is unconstitutional and highly undemocratic, no matter what Mr. Roberts may say and reminds me of the burying of the people’s voices after the Gaming ‘referendum’.

Any political organization that stifles true democracy within its own walls cannot truly be trusted to govern the country in a democratic fashion; the PLP has proven this time and time again as this seems to be a party where democracy is use at the discretion of the party if at all, but for the most party left to die.

The Progressive Liberal Party fails for one reason, it is their nature.

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