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RJR News has received confirmation that the PNP candidate for Western Portland Abe Dabdoub has filed a motion against his JLP rival Daryl Vaz to this effect in the Supreme Court.
The dual citizenship war is now in the legal arena.
The campaign has been a stormy one in Western Portland marred by uncivil language between the two men.
Mr. Dabdoub has been a thorn in the PNP side in the past.
But now that he is estranged from the JLP his wrath has been redirected.
The man who is known to run to the court to get redress in electoral dispute in the past has taken the fight into the legal domain.
We received the affidavit filed Thursday by the attorney.
Apart from Mr. Vaz, Carlton Harris, the Returning Officer for the constituency has been named in the suit.
So has the Attorney General's office.
The affidavit states in part: "Mr. Vaz is the holder of a passport issued by the Government of the United States and is by virtue of his own act, under an acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power or state in contravention of Section 40 of the Jamaican constitution."
Dabdoub claims that Vaz has travelled extensively to the United States.
The PNP candidate argues that against this background Vaz should be disqualified from being elected as a Member of Parliament in Monday's General Election.
Within this context, Dabdoub said Vaz's nomination on August 7 should be declared null and void.
He declares that the entire country of Jamaica would suffer severely from the uncertainty of not having the court pronounce swiftly on the issue.
In 1997, Dabdoub raced to the court after he lost the North East St. Catherine seat to Phylis Mitchell.
The court ruled in Dabdoub's favour a year before the 2002 General Election.
The dual citizenship war is now in the legal arena.
The campaign has been a stormy one in Western Portland marred by uncivil language between the two men.
Mr. Dabdoub has been a thorn in the PNP side in the past.
But now that he is estranged from the JLP his wrath has been redirected.
The man who is known to run to the court to get redress in electoral dispute in the past has taken the fight into the legal domain.
We received the affidavit filed Thursday by the attorney.
Apart from Mr. Vaz, Carlton Harris, the Returning Officer for the constituency has been named in the suit.
So has the Attorney General's office.
The affidavit states in part: "Mr. Vaz is the holder of a passport issued by the Government of the United States and is by virtue of his own act, under an acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power or state in contravention of Section 40 of the Jamaican constitution."
Dabdoub claims that Vaz has travelled extensively to the United States.
The PNP candidate argues that against this background Vaz should be disqualified from being elected as a Member of Parliament in Monday's General Election.
Within this context, Dabdoub said Vaz's nomination on August 7 should be declared null and void.
He declares that the entire country of Jamaica would suffer severely from the uncertainty of not having the court pronounce swiftly on the issue.
In 1997, Dabdoub raced to the court after he lost the North East St. Catherine seat to Phylis Mitchell.
The court ruled in Dabdoub's favour a year before the 2002 General Election.
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