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The opposition People’s Progressive Party is voicing its concern over what it is calling a flagrant violation of parliamentary democracy by the ruling A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance For Change coalition government.The contention is the move by the ruling coalition to “rush through” three important Bills at tomorrow’s sitting of the National Assembly.The PPP in a statement issued last evening informed that its Members of Parliament began receiving after 13:00hrs (1 pm) yesterday, copies of Bills slated for first reading on the Order Paper for the December 17th, 2015 sitting.According to the opposition party, the package also contained a Motion to be moved by the Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo suspending the Standing Orders to allow for all three Bills to go through all three stages at the December 17th sitting. The Motion had received the leave of the Speaker.The three Bills listed in the Motion are the Municipal and District Councils and Local Authorities (Amendment) Bill No. 14 of 2015, the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill No. 15 of 2015 and the Anti-Terrorism and Terrorist Related Activities Bill No.16 of 2015.The PPP noted that none of these bills was seen before yesterday afternoon and although they were dated as being gazetted on December 9th and 10th, none has been posted on the Official Gazette of Guyana website or on the Parliament of Guyana website.“This is a flagrant violation of parliamentary democracy which is premised on, this the highest law-making body being able to scrutinise and examine legislation as well as to provide ample time for the public to know what business is before the National Assembly and to be able to be informed and to exercise the freedom to express their views on these matters before the House,” the PPP said.“In particular, a cursory glance of these Bills is revealing – the first Bill, Bill No. 14 with regards to Local Government Elections (LGE) increases the number of signatures required to support a political party list under Proportional Representation. These amendments essentially make it extremely onerous or may even deny smaller parties from participating in the LGE. These amendments are undemocratic and must be opposed by all,” it added.The PPP continued that the second Bill, Bill No. 15 has also not been made public and therefore has not been given adequate time for scrutiny by Members of Parliament or the public and civil society.The party questioned the rush on this new AMLCFT (Amendment) Bill when the Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs has denied that Guyana is not compliant with FATF.“Why isn’t there the same urgency to set up the AMLCFT Authority and the FIU as provided for in the government’s AMLCFT Amendment Act 2015?”The third Bill, Bill No, 16 is a brand new 98-page bill, which again no one has seen the PPP stated.It said that due to developments in other countries on terrorism, and concerns with human rights here in Guyana, this Bill should be properly and publicly scrutinised in a Parliamentary Special Select Committee.The PPP argued that the move by the government to deny scrutiny and to rush through these Bills further exposes the new administration for its undemocratic actions.“Their actions fly in the face of positions taken by the APNU/PNCR/PNCRIG and AFC in previous parliaments.”For instance, the PPP highlighted that the Final Report of the Special Select Committee on the Needs Assessment of the Guyana National Assembly, April 10th, 2006,Kyle Korver Hawks Jersey, which was unanimously adopted by the National Assembly specifically amended the Standing Orders “to prevent Ministers moving that bills be considered “forthwith” and “not allow Bills to be taken through all their stages in one day” unless in a case of an emergency (Appendix pg2).The PPP explained that the Report includes recommendations that (i) bills must be circulated in advance and made accessible and available to the public (websites, post offices etc.,) and (ii) “all major and /or complex bills would be sent to a special select committee”. In fact even prior to this report the Parliamentary Management Committee had agreed that all “major and ‘or complex bills would be sent to a special select committee”.The opposition party stressed that since 2006, with the new Standing Orders, the PPPC government abided by these rules and parliamentary conventions and norms.In contrast,Andre Branch Dolphins Jersey, since the beginning of the 11th Parliament on June 10,NFL Jerseys From China, 2015, the APNU/AFC government has suspended the Standing Orders in order to railroad through legislation on more occasions than the entire period between 2006-2015 under the PPPC administration, the party stated.The PPPC Members of Parliament are calling on the Commonwealth Secretariat, the European Union,NFL Jerseys China Online, the UN and in particular the UNDP,Deion Jones Falcons Jersey, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, OAS, CARICOM,Marlon Humphrey Jersey, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank to note “this new assault on parliamentary democracy by the APNU AFC Coalition Government” and to take a stand in support of parliamentary democracy in the 11th Parliament.“We also call on civil society and progressive and democratic Guyanese to express their opposition to the consistent erosion and abandonment of parliamentary democracy by the APNUAFC Coalition Government.”