{"id":1245,"date":"2010-01-07T15:10:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2010-01-07T19:28:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T01:28:19","slug":"opposition-prepares-to-challenge-election-results-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/opposition-prepares-to-challenge-election-results-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition prepares to challenge election results in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1250\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HIGH-COURT1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1250\" title=\"HIGH COURT\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HIGH-COURT1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">High Court building on the Dame Eugenia Charles Boulevard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC &#8211; The main opposition United Workers Party (UWP) was Thursday making final preparations to file a number of petitions in the Dominica courts by Monday morning, challenging the results of the December 18th general elections that saw the Roosevelt Skerrit led Dominica Labour Party (DLP) return to office with an 18-3 majority.<\/p>\n<p>The UWP has set Monday as its deadline, 21 days after a general election, for submitting petitions challenging the results of the poll.<\/p>\n<p>Party Leader Ron Green told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) he was ironing out the details with his lawyers in preparation for filing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are going to be petitions. The deadline is approaching and the team of lawyers is advancing and really preparing before the deadline to file the necessary petitions,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The UWP was soundly defeated at the December 18 polls with Green losing his Laplaine seat by two votes to Petter Saint Jean, who was Monday sworn in as Education Minister along with the other ministers in the 15-member Skerrit cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Green revealed that he had spent close to three hours Thursday morning working on the petition to challenge the results in the Laplaine constituency as he remained confident that he was in fact the winner of that seat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will definitely be filing a petition in regard to the results of Laplaine. I will be contending that I am the victor in the case of the Laplaine seat,&#8221; he confirmed to CMC.<\/p>\n<p>Green also said the matter of dual citizenship remains a sore point for the UWP and it will be basing at least one of its petitions on that issue. The UWP had contended during the election campaign that Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit was ineligible to contest the Vielle Case constituency as he was also a French citizen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are other filings and petitions that are going to be filed in regards to DBS (the state owned broadcast station) among other issues which are still being finalised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would hesitate to name all of them until they are actually filed,&#8221; he stated, but told CMC the issue of dual citizenship was &#8220;definitely&#8221; up for contention.<\/p>\n<p>The UWP leader said his party was persisting with the petitions, aware that it would be a difficult process, because it was determined to maintain democracy in Dominica.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are persisting because we think democracy was raided and we think that the only way we can ensure that there is a strengthened democracy is if we take action now,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is very costly in the first instance, but sometimes you have to go through the struggle in order to get what you want and the party has determined that it is going to take a route that is required now if we are going to have democracy in our country,&#8221; Green concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC &#8211; The main opposition United Workers Party (UWP) was Thursday making final preparations to file a number of petitions in the Dominica courts by Monday morning, challenging the results of the December 18th general elections that saw&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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