Former Justice of Appeal Claudette Singh has been tipped to replace Raphael Trotman as Speaker of the National Assembly, according to sources in the APNU+AFC coalition.
Stabroek News understands that Singh was proposed by APNU while former Speaker Ralph Ramkarran was floated by the Alliance For Change.
Under the Cummingsburg Accord formalising the alliance between the two parties the Speaker has to come from civil society.
Singh was last year appointed Legal Advisor to the Guyana Police Force by the Office of the President and has since been serving in that capacity. She has previously been proposed by the PNCR for higher judicial positions.
