New Polls Loom - Razor-Thin Majority Expected To Force Next Government Into Early Elections
Published:Monday | February 29, 2016 | 12:00 AM Gary Spaulding
Jamaica seems set to return to the polls in very short order, with indications that either of the two major parties that crawls out of last Thursday's election on top could end up governing with a majority of one in the House of Representatives.
But more worrying for political commentator Dr Paul Ashley is what he described as the 159-vote mistake by the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ), which, he said, has sent the electoral process into a tailspin.
Dr Horace Chang, general secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), has acknowledged that an early election could be in the making. "In our system, even a one-vote majority can function, but it would not be appropriate to maintain for any long period," Chang told The Gleaner yesterday.
He added: "Some decisions will have to be taken early, and the possibility of an early election would, in fact, arise."
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