In defending, what the first and second chamber said about forming a coalition with a convicted person Marlin said that the laws of the island regulation allowed Laveist the same rights as every other island council member. He said Laveist would not be holding any public office and neither did he appoint anyone as commissioner. He further explained that the National Alliance is busy negotiating with Commissioner Theo Heyliger and he would be holding one of the commissioner's seat. "The National Alliance will be having at least seven seats in the island council and the door to be still ajar for other members of the island council." Marlin said.
The National Alliance leader said he made several attempts to form a broad base government with the Democratic Party long before Laveist was arrested and convicted but the Democratic Party leader is the one that stalled the process.
In the meantime, even though commissioner Heyliger has resigned from the executive council he is yet to resign from the Democratic Party, and declare his independence. It is understood that Heyliger was suppose to make that move this week but the death of the party's founding member delayed that process.
