Constitutional Reform: A suh di ting set

Listen First, Reform after

"NEW CONSCIOUSNESS

The mentality of advantage-taking is manifesting itself in the constitutional reform process. It is emerging quite strongly that the agreement between the political parties to replace the monarchy with a ceremonial president isn’t holding.

More and more people want an executive presidency and consider anything else just a continuing waste of money, despite the limited-but-important functions accorded the governor general and his successor. Younger citizens in particular want to vote for their leader of government and circumscribe his power by strong checks and balances, not in the present indirect way through a political party, but directly. They are unconvinced that we still need to depend on King’s House as well as Jamaica House.

This is part of the decisions which should be put to the citizenry. Who gave the JLP/PNP the authority to determine that? Public sentiment is overtaking what was “decided” earlier. Just saying that you are “building on what was settled previously”is no longer acceptable.

NO MORE ONE-UPMANSHIP

More than this, I get the sense that more people want a change in how a government is chosen; to end the dominance of a political party which can win an election and foist itself on the rest of us, despite being the choice of a fraction of electors, and even a minority of voters..

This is the time to change the terms and conditions of political representation: to elect a president by popular vote and to anchor MPs in their constituencies, beholden to constituents instead of in fealty to a party leader." Source: Listen First, Reform after

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