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It now appears that a December date - the month in which most general elections have been called in Jamaica since 1944 - will elude Prime Minister Andrew Holness.
His recent undertaking that the upcoming general election would be called on the new voters' list seems to have ruled out December this year. Holness' announcement last week that the names of the 42,000 additional persons to be placed on the voters' list should silence the grumbling of the Opposition People's National Party.
Dr Peter Phillips, the campaign director, has been leading a protestation within the party that an election on the old voters' list would not be countenanced.
This means that Holness will have to wait five clear days after the list is made public before he can announce the election date. With the list scheduled to be released on November 30, under the law, the earliest date that he can call the election to include the newly enumerated would be December 6.
The prime minister would then have to announce nomination day for December 12 - five clear days after his announcement.
Under the law, another 16, and 23 days must elapse after nomination day to facilitate a general election.
http://www.gleaner-ja.com/gleaner/20...ews/news2.html
His recent undertaking that the upcoming general election would be called on the new voters' list seems to have ruled out December this year. Holness' announcement last week that the names of the 42,000 additional persons to be placed on the voters' list should silence the grumbling of the Opposition People's National Party.
Dr Peter Phillips, the campaign director, has been leading a protestation within the party that an election on the old voters' list would not be countenanced.
This means that Holness will have to wait five clear days after the list is made public before he can announce the election date. With the list scheduled to be released on November 30, under the law, the earliest date that he can call the election to include the newly enumerated would be December 6.
The prime minister would then have to announce nomination day for December 12 - five clear days after his announcement.
Under the law, another 16, and 23 days must elapse after nomination day to facilitate a general election.
http://www.gleaner-ja.com/gleaner/20...ews/news2.html
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