Philipsburg: ---The leader of the Democratic Party Sarah Wescot Williams announced on Tuesday that her party would be contesting the federal elections if it comes to that. She said based on all indications given by the Central Government the elections would take place as announced by the Prime Minister Emily de Jongh-Elhage. However, the Democratic Party faction is concerned on how the matter has been handled since none of the island members were consulted prior to a decision being taken. Wescot Williams said it sounds as if the Minister of Constitutional Affairs did not seem to know what was happening.
She said while it was decided at the political meeting of the Kingdom on June 24 to postpone the parliamentary elections, which is to be seen as the transition in conjunction with the transition date of country status.
The central government based on this decision commissioned a report back then was the basis for the central government submitting a draft law to postpone elections to the Council of Advice.
Immediately upon receipt of the advice, the Central government announced that they would not submit their own draft law to postpone the parliamentary elections to the Parliament.
The DP faction leader felt the most decent in their opinion would have been to await the September meeting in which a date for country status must be decided on and then deal with the matter of postponement or not of elections.
