Gonsalves welcomes injunction into constituency squabble

St. Vincent's Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has welcomed the court ruling granting the continuance of an injunction preventing the publication of a report that called for increasing the number of electoral constituencies.

The injunction was brought by the main opposition, New Democratic Party and last week a high court judge allowed for the extension, which the NDP says has stalled plans to increase the constituencies from 15 to 17.

But addressing parliament Monday, Prime Minister Gonsalves suggested that the opposition should not be so quick to claim victory.

“It was not a trial. It was an interim proceeding. Therefore all that was required for the applicants to show was that a try-able issue exists which should go to trial. They had to do no more than that,”

“Now a try-able issue is not a difficult thing to do, it is in law and in evidence a fairly simple thing to do it as you will say on the street not really a big thing,” Dr. Gonsalves said.

[Story courtesy of the BBC Caribbean Service]