Norton: AFC will not ‘dictate’ candidate for Region 10 Vice-Chair post

LEADER of the Opposition (LoO) and Chairman of the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Aubrey Norton, on Tuesday, made it clear that his party will not allow the Alliance For Change to “dictate” the picking of the candidate for the Vice-Chairmanship of Region 10.

This challenges earlier comments by AFC Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan, that his party would get the support of the APNU for their pick, Coretta Brathwaite, for the Vice-Chair position or there could be “consequences in relation to the relationship” between the APNU and the AFC.

Speaking at his weekly press conference, Norton made it clear that his party is not in support of the AFC having sole authority over who the Vice-Chairman candidate should be.
“The issue was not whether it’s an AFC Vice-Chairman. As far as I know the APNU has been disposed to an AFC Vice-Chair but it must not be somebody who is dictated by the AFC who doesn’t have the confidence of the APNU,” Norton declared.