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Political gimmick by Thorne, says Nicholls

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Barbados Labour Party candidate for St Thomas, Gregory Nicholls, yesterday weighed in on any attempts to halt the February 11 poll.

“I laughed when I heard it because I believe any first-year student of mine in constitutional law would know the only court that can deal with the validity of an election is the Election Court and the jurisdiction of the Election Court comes after the election.

“I would say that in 2017, when citizens who were eligible to vote were being denied registration, myself and Wilfred Abrahams and a team of lawyers went to court.

“We didn’t try to stop the 2018 General Election. We went to the courts and got a declaration from the Chief Justice of Barbados that the Electoral and Boundaries Commission was refusing to register the Commonwealth citizens who were lawfully entitled by our laws to be registered,” the attorney said, after completing his nomination process at the Duncan C.

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