The Dominica Freedom Party (DFP), the United Workers Party (UWP), and the National Joint Action Movement (NJAM) as well as other political stakeholders have decided to meet over PM Roosevelt Skerrit’s proclamation for a snap election.
DFP’s general secretary, Johnston Boston, said the emergency meeting would provide an opportunity for the opposition and stakeholders to appropriately react to Skerrit’s snap election plans. Boston stated that one of the key agendas to be discussed at the evening meeting was the issue of election reform which is yet to be implemented in the country.
We were promised electoral reform following the 2019 general elections and here we are again going to face another election with no reform. We don’t know where the report is. Over half a million dollars was paid to Sir Denis Byron and we don’t know if he took our money, we simply don’t know.
Johnston Boston, Dominica Freedom Party’s General Secretary
While stating that the prime minister’s announcement of a coming snap election is hilarious, Boston said Skerrit is taking the cooperation and godliness of the people of Dominica for granted. He condemned the move of the DLP leader to foist his party perpetually on the people of the nation and running the country like a cabal. He said Skerrit called for a snap election two years before its due date in a calculated move to keep the DLP perpetually in power.
The reason he gave us was to give the DLP a fresh and new look. It can’t be about the Labour Party; it has to be more than the Labour Party. It’s a country you are running, not a camp of indisciplined politicians and ministers and members of parliament.
Johnston Boston, Dominica Freedom Party’s General Secretary
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