{"id":324938,"date":"2024-06-24T15:25:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=324938"},"modified":"2024-06-25T10:14:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T14:14:53","slug":"state-presidents-secretary-hints-delay-in-opposition-leaders-successor-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/state-presidents-secretary-hints-delay-in-opposition-leaders-successor-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Charles awaits turn as opposition leader with great anticipation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jesma Paul-Victor, Anthony Charles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Parliamentary representative for the Marigot Constituency, Anthony Charles, one of only two opposition candidates elected to the Dominica House of Assembly in the last general election, says he is ready to begin his term as Opposition Leader but he might have to wait just a little longer than expected before taking up that important position.<\/p>\n

Charles contested and won the December 20, 2022 snap general election as an independent candidate in the Marigot constituency. He and Jesma Paul-Victor, who was also elected to parliament as an independent opposition candidate in the Salisbury constituency, agreed to a power-sharing arrangement in which they would alternate as Leader of the Opposition. This was necessary because neither Charles nor Paul-Victor could command the support of other elected members of the House to enable them to claim the position.<\/p>\n

However, there appears to be a delay in Charles’ appointment in fulfillment of his power-sharing agreement with the Salisbury MP.<\/p>\n

Paul-Victor was the first to be appointed and sworn in as opposition leader on December 20, 2022. Her appointment which was for eighteen months, was expected to end on June 19, 2024, after which Charles would take over.<\/p>\n

Paul-Victor’s letter of resignation marking the end of her tenure was tendered “with immediate effect” on June 20, 2024, but a prompt response from the President signed by her secretary, and which appeared on social media, reminds Paul-Victor of the procedure that has to be followed in filling the vacant position of Leader of the Opposition.<\/p>\n

Paul-Victor is advised in the letter, that in accordance with section 66 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Dominica, which outlines the criteria for appointing a Leader of the Opposition, “the elected members of the House who do not support the Government, would be required to submit a joint letter to The President informing whom they now support to be appointed Leader of the opposition.”\u00a0According to the constitution, the President must select the elected member of the House who appears most likely to command the support of a majority of elected members not aligned with the Government.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Dominica News Online, Charles expressed his readiness for the appointment and while discussions have not yet taken place on the change-over, he stressed the importance of adhering to the 18-month split-term agreement between the two opposition parliamentarians.<\/p>\n

Recognizing the need for collective ideas to shape Dominica\u2019s future, Charles, who recently declared himself to be a registered member of Dominica’s newest political party, the United Progressive Party (UPP), pledged to engage with independent candidates from the last election,<\/p>\n

\u201cI will have some meeting with them to share some of their ideas because my ideas alone cannot build Dominica, so we need to bring our ideas together, opposition forces to come to a mutual agreement to move this country,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Charles also lamented what he referred to youth indifference in Dominica and called for the inclusion of young people in various aspects of the national development process.<\/p>\n

However, it was still unclear as to when exactly, the Marigot parliamentary representative will take up his leadership position in the House. He told Dominica News Online that as of Monday morning, he had not heard from Paul-Victor about the joint letter.<\/p>\n

And so the nation waits with some anticipation to see how Charles will approach the job of Leader of the Opposition and how that opportunity will help to shape his political future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parliamentary representative for the Marigot Constituency, Anthony Charles, one of only two opposition candidates elected to the Dominica House of Assembly in the last general election, says he is ready to begin his term as Opposition Leader but he might…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":325006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[235,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-carousel","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAnthony Charles awaits turn as opposition leader with great anticipation - 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