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Hon. Salas Says Run Di Referendum
posted (April 15, 2019)
Also supporting the bill was the NGO senator. Senator Osmany Salas explained that - in his view - voters have an appointment with history:..,

Hon. Osmany Salas, NGO Sentator
"The opposition say we must hit and a couple of my colleagues have said we must hot the pause button and I have to ask for how long? I heard 2 years. I've heard about a 25 years deepfreeze. The UDP/ Government is adamant that we should have the referendum during this current administration. That is my read. While my read is that the opposition is determine to kick this can down the road. I have to ask to when? To the next administration? Maybe hoping that they would be there. How long? When would we ever hold a referendum? ever, never, never ever. This is the bind a lot of our voters are in. Who to trust. Trust, that is a very loaded word - who to trust. We need to be careful that when it comes to delay it is not at the expense of possibly squandering what in my informed opinion is a terrific opportunity, possible a generational opportunity to rid ourselves of that insulting claim. The position I will take on this bill, I must say if I hadn't said it before - has the resounding support of the network of NGOs the position on this bill."

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