Grenada-based High court Judge Raulston Glasgow will be delivering his decision in the “strike out” application case of the 2019 election petitions of the United Workers Party (UWP) on October 14, 2020.
The UWP has challenged election results in 10 constituencies won by the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) in 2019.
Anthony Astaphan SC who leads the battery of lawyers for the DLP, DBS radio, the Chief Elections Officer et al, argued that the election petition was not perfected in the designated time frame according to the Elections Act.
Astaphan told the court that the petition fails to “meet the standard to be heard in court as it fails to name any elector who was brought to the country to vote, anyone who was bribed, bribe amounts and recipients.”
UWP lawyer Zahidha James argued that there were several instances of bribery and treating and very interestingly, the respondents have admitted to importing people to vote…and we certainly believe that is something a trial judge should look at. We have a good cause of action, on the DBS matter, we pleaded eight grounds saying that DBS was biased and did not act fairly in the way it covered the several political events.
James said she was satisfied that she presented a solid case to the judge.
Ms James made no reference to “8 grounds against dbs”. What nonesense quote is that? Poor reporting