There is uncertainty over who will be the two Opposition Senators to be selected.
The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) submitted two names in president Ralph Thorne and former Senator Ryan Walters, but it is understood candidates from Friends of Democracy and the People’s Coalition for Progress could be in the running.
Sources said that the President issued an invitation to the DLP to submit “three or four names” for consideration for Senate picks, but only those two were sent in after a General Council meeting at its party headquarters on Wednesday night.
The Senate comprises 21 people, with 12 Government senators and seven Independents sworn in between Monday and earlier today. (Nation News)
I am happy that our republic cobstitutiin or whatever constitutiin exists gives this power to the President to select senators outside of the indepents he is mandated to select. Outside of such constitutional authority the President would be on shaky ground. I am also happy that the DLP did not deliver up to him their right to select the two senators allowed them. The President must be guided by something. And so must the parties offered this largess. It would be interesting to see the criteria used for determining who gets these two seats. Presumably the constitutiin foresaw the scenario. That it would not have established the criteria is odd. But maybe it did.