Opposition Leader David Granger has announced that the main opposition APNU will withhold support from certain government bills in the National Assembly unless it gets an assurance from the executive that bills already passed would receive presidential assent and those already enacted would be operationalised.
This is according to a statement issued on Wednesday by the Office of the Leader of the Opposition, which noted Granger’s dismay that President Donald Ramotar has not assented to four bills passed by the National Assembly. Three of the bills—the Fiscal Management and Account-ability (Amendment) Bill, 2012; Fiscal Management and Accountability (Amendment) Bill, 2013; Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2013–were tabled and passed by the combined opposition parties,