Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman yesterday said that the President Donald Ramotar’s line in the sand over bills passed by the opposition without government input is a sign of frustration.
“I think that it is a statement perhaps more out of frustration that he feels that the government is being pressed to the wall and I would say perhaps bad advice; a combination of the two, because if we were to understand a concept of the separation of powers, the legislator has a right to pass laws and as president, unless you can show very good and exceptional reasons why he should refuse to assent to them,