{"id":52276,"date":"2015-01-08T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9c315ffc36a2608b22696fb29921f151"},"modified":"2015-01-08T13:22:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T13:22:41","slug":"press-release-fco-minister-calls-for-resumption-of-parliament-in-guyana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=52276","title":{"rendered":"Press release: FCO Minister calls for resumption of Parliament in Guyana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> change to headings size in body.<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h3 id=\"foreign-office-minister-tobias-ellwood-calls-for-the-earliest-possible-resumption-of-parliament-as-required-by-guyanas-constitution-and-the-commonwealth-charter\">Foreign Office Minister, Tobias Ellwood, calls for the earliest possible resumption of Parliament as required by Guyana\u2019s Constitution and the Commonwealth Charter.<\/h3>\n<p>Mr Ellwood said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UK Government views with concern the continued prorogation of Parliament by His Excellency President Ramotar and calls for its earliest possible resumption. Parliament is required by Guyana\u2019s Constitution and the Commonwealth Charter, it provides the necessary checks and balances and enables citizens\u2019 voices to be heard.  The suspension of Parliament therefore means that an essential element of a functioning democracy has been put on hold.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also continue to have concerns that there have been no local elections for over 20 years, which is also contrary to the democratic principles of the Commonwealth Charter and Guyana\u2019s own Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UK calls on all stakeholders to seek solutions to the political and socio-economic challenges facing Guyana so that the country can develop in a fair, democratic and equitable way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Office Minister, Tobias Ellwood, calls for the earliest possible resumption of Parliament as required by Guyana\u2019s Constitution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}