JA PM to announce election date after voters list is published
Key Points(4)
- "The youths of Jamaica should be given an equal opportunity to have a say in the way their country is governed," she told supporters .
- It has been widely speculated that the election, constitutionally due by December 29, 2016, could take place this year and both the PNP and the main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) have been holding public rallies across the country in anticipation of an election date.
- But Prime Minister Simpson Miller said the decision to wait until the next voters' list is published on November 30 is a result of the "soundings" being across the island.
- Thirty seven thousand new voters will be added to the list when a new one is published at the end of the month.
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, who says she is waiting the touch from God before announcing the date for the next general election, has told supporters that they will probably know the date for the polls only after the Voters List is published on November 30.
Addressing a mass rally in Black River, St Elizabeth on Sunday, Simpson Miller, who is president of the ruling People’s National Party (PNP), said Jamaica will not go to the polls on the current voters' list.
"The youths of Jamaica should be given an equal opportunity to have a say in the way their country is governed," she told supporters .
It has been widely speculated that the election, constitutionally due by December 29, 2016, could take place this year and both the PNP and the main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) have been holding public rallies across the country in anticipation of an election date.
But Prime Minister Simpson Miller said the decision to wait until the next voters' list is published on November 30 is a result of the "soundings" being across the island.
Thirty seven thousand new voters will be added to the list when a new one is published at the end of the month.
Simpson Miller also announced that her party is calling off its political meetings until after Christmas saying she wants Jamaicans to have a peaceful Christmas Season.
The JLP says it is prepared to await the publication of the new Voters List and is also confident of winning the election.
In the last general election, the PNP won 42 of the 63 seats.
