Politics
St Kitts & Nevis: Political crisis as legislators present injunction in court against Denzil Douglas administration
St. Kitts & Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas
The majority of elected legislators in St Kitts & Nevis’ parliament have presented an application for an interim injunction the island-nations’ high court against the administration of Prime Minister Denzil Douglas.
The presiding judge has ordered that the matter resume on April 18, to provide defence counsel enough time to consider their response.
The legislators are seeking various declarations from the high court.
The main thrust of the case is that the Denzil Douglas administration is in essence a government hanging by a thread, a potentially illegitimate administration, and that it can have no mandate whatsoever to govern the affairs of the federation of St Kitts & Nevis, while a pending motion of no confidence in the prime minister remains off the agenda of the National Assembly and has not yet been debated in parliament.
(More: St. Kitts and Nevis: Prime Minister Denzil Douglas facing no confidence motion)
The law makers — Mark Brantley, Sam Condor, Shawn Richards, Vance Amory, Dr Timothy Harris, and Eugene Hamilton — represent a majority of the eleven elected representatives in parliament.
Earlier this year, the six together signed a letter addressed to the governor general advising him of their intention to support the motion of no confidence in the prime minister delivered to the clerk of the National Assembly on 11 December 2012.
