Political scientist Peter Wickham says the impending exit of Member of Parliament for St John Mara Thompson was handled badly by the ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP) administration.
“I really don’t think that is an appropriate manner to handle something as serious as representation,” he told the DAILY NATION.
Thompson, who has been representing St John since January 2011 when she won a by-election following the death of her husband, Prime Minister David Thompson in 2010, announced last Tuesday, just before entering the House of Assembly for the day’s sitting, that she would not be running for St John.
“The whole thing was handled very badly by Mrs Thompson the representative,” Wickham said. “If we use as a point of comparison the departure the former representative of Christ Church West Dr William Duguid when he intended to leave, an announcement was made not only to the constitutents, but he also gave the party an opportunity to stage-manage the whole process a lot better,” he added. (CM)
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