OBA MP Scott Pearman asks “Where is the PLP’s election platform?”
From One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) MP Scott Pearman via press release:
Why does Premier Burt believe he can do whatever he wants and simply ignore Bermuda’s established rules and conventions?
The election has already been called. Parliament has been dissolved. This is now the pre-election period. By longstanding convention in our Westminster system, Government Ministers, including the Premier, are prohibited from taking any policy decisions until after the election has been held. The Burt Government is now only a ‘caretaker government’.
Premier David Burt’s announcement that Gilbert Institute will become a care facility for seniors is a policy decision the PLP Government does not have the authority to take now that Parliament has been dissolved.
PLP Ministers only serve in ‘caretaker’ mode during the election period. The Attorney General should remind them of that fact. Yet the Premier seems not to care.
Apparently, the Premier is also tone-deaf after the debacle his Government created with the West End Primary school fiasco. By not listening to parents and the community yet again, it’s clear the PLP government has lost its way. Seniors also deserve better treatment than a last minute election promise.
My colleague Ben Smith has rightly called for a pause on the PLP’s disastrous school closure plan.
It is clear the Premier was forced to call an election before the PLP was ready…why does the public have to wait for its election platform?
With the election underway, all policy decisions must wait until after the public has decided upon Bermuda’s next Government. The Premier must know this. Does he care?
Update via OBA press team
