Member of Parliament Edmund Hinkson has given no word on whether there will be a by-election in St James North since announcing – two years ahead of the constitutionally due General Election – that he was bowing out of elective politics.
Hinkson, who has won three straight elections in the riding starting in 2013, said on Saturday he was paving the way for Senator Chad Blackman to succeed him.
Last Tuesday during a sitting of the House of Assembly, Opposition Leader Ralph Thorne had predicted the calling of a by-election in St James that comprises constituencies in the
north, south and central.
“I am not getting into that . . . . I’ve made a statement and what I’ve said is that whenever an election is called, that the Dems will have to answer for the fact that for the last 12 years, for the 12 years I was MP, that they have done nothing for the people of St James North,” Hinkson told the DAILY NATION yesterday when asked about the possibility of a by-election. (AC/JRN)
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