by Emmanuel H. Joseph
Government Information Service
Hon. Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, at a recent Dominica Labour Party meeting on Thursday 19th November in Mahaut, announced the date for the next General elections, Friday, December 18th, 2009.
Hon. Prime Minister of
Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit
“I am tonight ringing the bell. Enough is enough! There is only one way to return order and decency to public life in Dominica. We need to send to purveyors of the politics of negativity a strong unambiguous message. Therefore, in accordance with the powers vested in me as Prime Minister of this country, under section fifty-four (54) of the Constitution of Dominica, I have today, Thursday the nineteenth day of November, 2009 instructed His Excellency the President to dissolve the Parliament of Dominica with immediate effect and to issue a write for the calling of General Elections in Dominica.
Fellow Dominicans at home and abroad, nomination day in Dominica will be the second of December, 2009. Ladies and gentlemen, the day we shall chose between going forward and going backward, the day we shall chose to work together or to be divided, the day we shall chose to embrace current foreign policy or return to a backward non-progressive way of thinking, that day my dear people is Friday the 18th Day of December, 2009. Friday, the eighteenth of December, 2009 shall be elections day in Dominica.”
In the meantime, the Prime Minister has said that he will be inviting foreign observers to monitor the December 18th elections in an effort to dispel any assertions of irregularities in the polls on that day.
“On Friday past, (20th November, 2009), as Prime Minister and chairman of Cabinet, I wrote to the Organisation of American States and CARICOM inviting them to observe our elections in Dominica on December 18th, 2009 to be sure that nobody says on the night of December 18, 2009 that there were irregularities in the elections.”
Nomination day is set for December 2, 2009. It is expected that the entire five political parties will field in candidates to contest the twenty-one (21) constituencies. |
