(Jamaica Observer) President Mark Golding and members of his People’s National Party (PNP) on Friday celebrated the latest in a series of victories against the Government, following a ruling by the Constitutional Court that an extension last year to the tenure of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn was unconstitutional.

Golding, the leader of the Opposition, wasted little time on Friday following the ruling to call a press conference where he celebrated the victories by the PNP against the Government over the unconstitutional nature of specific legislation.

Golding used Friday’s press conference to highlight political points gained by the PNP in its challenging of legislation and actions of the Government on numerous occasions. He said the PNP was doing its duty as guardian of the constitution.

“This [latest] ruling is very, very important. It is ground breaking because it is a bill to amend the constitution that they passed and the basis on which it was challenged was because we felt the way it was seeking to do this had an improper motive, but also was in violation of the constitutional arrangements to do with how a DPP can have her tenure in office extended. The current DPP had received a three-year extension prior to her 60th birthday in accordance with the procedure that the constitution provides and the governor general approved that extension. Her tenure should have ended September last year, which was the end of that three-year period. The Government, for reasons one can only speculate about, sought in July last year to rush through this legislation not only to say that future DPPs and auditor generals would retire at 65 rather than 60, but to apply that to the existing incumbent is where they violated the constitution,” Golding said.

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