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Posted: Thursday 1 November, 2007 at 10:03 AM
    Dookeran Accuses Manning of Holding Back Constitution Draft
     
    By Claudia Liburd
    Trinidad Reporter-SKNVibes.com
     
    Prime Minister Patrick Manning
    (Port-of-Spain) --- Leader of the Congress of the People, Winston Dookeran has publicly accused Prime Minister Patrick Manning of withholding the final two drafts of the constitutional draft.
     
    The remarks came during a political meeting held in San Fernando on Tuesday night where Dookeran claimed that were certain proposals in the draft which would adversely affect the way the country is governed.
     
    “Mr. Manning is going into an election and refuses to declare what is the draft constitution that he intends to impose on this country if you give him the opportunity. A Prime Minister is now asking you to accept cat in the bag a whole new constitution which he shall impose because everyone knows when he talks about consultation it is always a sham.
     
    The people have a right to know and if you are treating them like that before an election how would you treat them after?” said Dookeran.
     
    Leader of the Opposition, Kamla Persad-Bissessar further substantiated these claims when she claimed that a copy of the ‘secret document’ was placed in her post box earlier this month.
     
    According to Persad-Bissessar under Clause 42:3 of the new constitution Executive authority of Trinidad and Tobago will be vested in the President and subject to the Constitution may be exercised by him directly or through officers subordinate to him.
     
    ~~Adz:Right~~ The Opposition Leader is quoted as saying, “There shall be a Vice President of Trinidad and Tobago who shall be selected by the President acting at his sole discretion. So the monster Executive President would select the Vice President and his job as Vice President shall be to serve as the majority leader in the House of Representatives.” 
     
    However, Prime Minister Patrick Manning has publicly refuted these claims while delivering his feature address at the launch of the party’s manifesto which took place at the Hilton Hotel on October 26.
     
    “One of the documents has ended up in the pubic domain. I am sure more will end up, my dear friends, a work in progress.  It is dated... June 2007, there is one subsequent one that you know.  There might be subsequent to that, so those that have been sending things in the mail boxes have been running late, the mail is a little slow”, said Prime Minster Patrick Manning.
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