00:00Martin Daly, senior counsel, tells the TV6 Morning Edition he is satisfied that Prime
00:06Minister Stuart Young's ascension process to the head of the cabinet was constitutionally
00:12proper.
00:13He adds that there is no need to fuss over the legitimacy of it as the country must go
00:19to the polls no later than November 2025.
00:23Political leader of the United National Congress Kamala Biswas has said the process is a blatant
00:29disregard for the constitution and an assault on the country's democracy.
00:34Today, the senior counsel also weighed in on threats from the opposition to take legal
00:39action if yesterday's swearing-in ceremony took place.
00:43The opposition is free to mount a legal challenge.
00:47It's open to them to go to the court and ask them to construe or to interpret section 76
00:53in the particular circumstances of this case.
00:56It is open to them to seek some kind of declaration about the validity of the appointment.
01:02It's not open to them to get the court to set aside the appointment.
01:06Daly SC says instead of bickering, people should focus on what Prime Minister Young
01:12will do differently from Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley in terms of dealing with crime
01:17and education.
01:19He notes that crime remains a major sore point for the population and gave his views on the
01:25reshuffle at the Ministry of National Security.
01:28But changing the guard is completely irrelevant unless the new guard, old guard, doesn't matter
01:33which guard, has a policy to work by and so it doesn't matter who you put, you have to
01:40have a policy and that is why our election should be fought on the basis of competing
01:44policies.
01:45So it's very nice to see the back of Mr Hines, I mean I like him as a masked player but it's
01:52very good to see the back of him in national security because he resolutely refused to
01:57acknowledge that we had a serious problem.
01:59He also shares his view on the appointment of Minister Camille Robinson-Regis as Attorney
02:04General.
02:05I think it's a question of lack of resources.
02:10Who did he have to choose from, Scotland, Gonzalez, Robinson-Regis, he could have brought
02:17back Al-Rawi in that post but Al-Rawi was always his rival so I don't know he would
02:22have put him back there.
02:24So where is he going to get a resource?
02:26The senior counsel says the country's international image is in jeopardy and has already been
02:32badly affected.
02:33He says the government not only failed as a country when dealing with crime and violence
02:40but they were also indifferent about it and playing the blame game.
02:44However, he says, Prime Minister Young may prove to be less indifferent and more creative
02:50but his journey won't be easy given his many political challenges.
02:54Many of us have really worrying, have some concerns about the opposition.
03:02A lot of the things they say, well to be blunt, are wacko.
03:07Now we have this business of saying that if this government makes a deal over the refinery
03:12they won't honour it.
03:13They haven't said they will look at it, re-examine it, try to renegotiate it.
03:17And I think there's a problem getting people to do business with a government where the
03:22rivals for office say, if you enter into a contract, I won't honour it.
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