Opposition Members of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) diligently showed up for Monday’s meeting to fulfill their responsibility to the people of Guyana, only to find that the PPP members of the Committee refused to come. This forced the statutory meeting of the PAC to be canceled.
Under the APNU+AFC administration, the PAC had a simple quorum of three members needed to hold its statutory weekly meeting. Under those rules, neither the government nor the Opposition had the option of sabotaging a meeting by simply refusing to show up.
The PPP has recently passed a change to the Standing Orders of the Parliament that made it necessary for both the government and the Opposition to be present for a meeting to be held. This change now makes the act of simply refusing to show up for the meeting enough to prevent the work of the Committee.
The PPP refusing to show up to today’s PAC meeting is the first time this intentionally created loophole has been used to undermine the work of the Committee.
