Government Senators in the upper house earlier today defended the act to postpone the local elections a further 12 months, due to the ongoing Covid-19 virus being in its fourth wave. They maintained that the holding of an election at this time would put the country at greater public-health risk.
Opposition senators made it clear that they were not against the postponement of the election; however there is cause for concern. The bill was however passed in the upper house and the election is to be held no later than February 2023.
Political expediency, that’s how opposition senators describe the government’s move to postpone the local government election on the basis that the country is experiencing a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections. Senator Brown contests that these are nothing but excuses, as the government is concealing the real reason for the postponement. Meanwhile Senator Damion Crawford says the government has not participated in what he describes as “the habit of truth”. The bill was however passed in the upper house and the election is to be held no later than February 2023.
