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Daly Bread: Abstinence, abstention and absconding; sold short by procurement vote
Politicians and their satellites do not always practise abstinence from corruption. If persons populating our institutions abstain, without credible cause, from the limited opportunities to act as checks and balances, we can expect no change in the rate at which the corrupt will abscond unjustly enriched.
Last week, amidst public concern about the effect of abstentions and in the interest of fairness, I expressed my opinion that Independent Senator Dr Maria Dillon-Remy should not be targeted as the sole ‘cause’ of the government successfully diluting the procurement legislation, by being able to pass an amending bill through what is known as a simple majority.
Senator John spared Privileges Committee
Jearlean John
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SENATE President Christine Kangaloo on Tuesday told the Senate she was satisfied with Opposition Senator Jearlean John s personal explanation for her remarks in a Newsday story on December 9 headlined: Jearlean John upset at Independents vote on the Procurement Bill.
Kangaloo said it was not necessary for John to go before the Privileges Committee.
Last Thursday, Independent Senator Paul Richards brought a contempt motion against John for her remarks to Newsday on last Tuesday’s vote on a bill to amend the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property (Amendment) Bill 2020.
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Daly: Abstaining from voting in Senate gives government majority
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A former independent senator said the decision by independent senators to abstain from supporting the procurement legislation had the same effect of a yes vote.
Martin Daly, SC, said that the media and others portrayed the wrong information when it reported that the Government only needed support from one of the nine independent senators in order to pass the legislation last week. The Government was seeking a simple majority for its proposal. In that case, from the moment the first abstention on the final vote occurred, the Government was home and dry, even if all the opposition senators and the remaining eight of the nine Independents voted against the proposal, he stated.