When the government fails the people, the elected representatives have to be held to account, says Liberal and Justice Party (LJP) founder Lenox Shuman, who hailed AFC MP Charrandas Persaud’s defection from the government benches to vote for a PPP/C no-confidence motion that triggered the fall of the APNU+AFC government on Friday night.
“Mr Persaud’s dissent…should be a (peek) into the future of Guyana, and what the country is more in need of. He had (has) a right to depart from his party lines and I will not lament the failures of both the PNC and PPP,” Shuman, who launches his party on January 12, said in a statement on Saturday.
He said that one of the fundamental tenets of a democratic society is that when the government fails the people, the elected representatives have to be held to account.