If Article 3(9) of the NPP Constitution is unconstitutional, the leadership of the Party, Parliamentary Caucus and Government, ought to have the integrity to say so.Using the Supreme Court to sidestep the leadership duty of being honest with the people, only puts the Court in a bad light with negative implications for the Courts' own integrity.We are where we are in Parliament, held to ransom by the NPP in power, only because of their selfish party preservation interests.
Certainly not national stability.Article 3(9) of the NPP Constitution reads as follows;"FORFEITURE OF MEMBERSHIPA Member of the Party, who stands as an independent candidate against the officially elected member of the Party, or who joins or declares his or her support for another Political Party, or for an independent candidate, when the Party has sponsored a candidate in a general or by-election, automatically forfeits his or her membership of the Party." There is nothing futuristic about the clear provision above.
The loss of party membership or parliamentary standing, is immediate.
It requires no notice or hearing.