PHILIPSBURG--The petition to force government to resign and bring about new elections launched by social activist Eldridge van Putten more than a month ago, but not yet submitted to Parliament, is "on the mark," says National Alliance (NA) leader/Member of Parliament (MP) William Marlin.
Referring to the petition on the Lloyd Richardson Show on Voice of St. Maarten Radio Network on Sunday morning, and what he deemed the lack of cohesion in government, Marlin said, "The petition was on the mark in the sense that we need to go back to the polls. We need fresh elections. We need to give a new mandate to elected persons that will work in solving the problems in this country and moving the country forward."
Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams has "contradicted" agreements on the budget made with CFT by Finance Minister Shigemoto, while Deputy Prime Minister Theo Heyliger is "hardly in the country" and is only heard from when he gives news about some new project, Marlin said.
He added that it sounded good to blame the state of affairs of the six-month-old country on the NA and to say that country status had been rushed. However, the island had been trying to become a country under the former Democratic Party (DP) leadership, but the Dutch government would not agree and it was only after NA took the reins of government in June 2009 that the process towards country status had pushed forward, he said.
"It is clear now that managing this product ? country St. Maarten ? if you do it with the politics of yesteryear, playing games, hiding agendas, looking out, there is no sense of direction. There is no cohesiveness. There is no family that sits around the table and says, 'Guys, this is what we have to spend, these are our problems, how are we going to solve them, how are we going to confront them?'
"Everybody goes their own way: the Prime Minister heading to the North Pole and the Deputy Prime Minister heading to the South Pole and the other ministers scattering all around the equator and in other time zones. There is no sense of direction and it is to the detriment of the people of St. Maarten, because at the end of the day it is the people who will suffer," Marlin said.
Based on Article 59 of the Constitution, Parliament may be dissolved by national ordinance. "A resolution for dissolution shall also include an order for new elections for the dissolved Parliament and for the reconvening of the newly elected Parliament within three months. The dissolution shall take effect on the day on which the newly elected Parliament convenes."
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