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PUP Asks Court to Injunct PM
posted (July 7, 2020)
For the past few weeks, we've been reporting on the PUP and the UDP's fight over a January judgement given by the former Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin.

He found that the Prime Minister, as Minister of Finance and the Financial Secretary violated the constitution when they spent public funds without first getting parliamentary approval.

And while that is what he said in court, Benjamin never delivered his formal judgement in writing, and so the government is calling it a non decision and carrying on like it never happened.

Well now the PUP has filed a claim in the Supreme Court asking for an injection to stop the government from making any supplementary budgetary allocations without prior approval of the national assembly. These are usually done in the form of warrants for emergency spending. Well, the PUP is asking the court to stop government form issuing those.

The matter is filed by John Briceno and Julius Espat. We'll be there when it gets a hearing date.

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