The proposed statute eventually fell off the table and was never reintroduced. Under the Golding administration of 2007, then Justice Minister Delroy Chuck laid a bill in Parliament in 2011 to allow for the impeachment of public officials. it deals with holding public officials to account and, therefore, itвЂ™s a question of how much public support can be generated around it,вЂќ Golding told The Gleaner on Tuesday. вЂIt is going to be important for the public to let its voice be heard. Sign up for The GleanerвЂ™s morning and evening newsletters. He did not pronounce a perspective on the allegations surrounding Wright. Golding, a former leader of the JLP, said that Jamaicans held the key to resurrecting impeachment as a civic defence to breach of trust. The police have dropped the case because the couple have been uncooperative. WrightвЂ™s attorney Able-Don Foote has not declared that his client was not the perpetrator in the April 6 video that coincides with police reports filed by both the MP and his partner, Tannisha Singh. The governing party said last week that Wright was being sidelined from its parliamentary caucus as public outrage flared over whether he was the aggressor in a viral video pummelling a woman with his fists and a stool. That position is moot amid the disclosure Monday evening that Belmont Road has approved an application from Wright to take a leave of absence from the JLP and that he has been relieved of all party duties. Days after the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) sought to isolate Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament George Wright over a smouldering assault scandal, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding has urged the public to force lawmakersвЂ™ hands in retabling impeachment legislation.

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