If its five members don’t resign, the motion will be elevated to the Bailiff and a date will be set for the motion to be debated by the entire Assembly.
The possibility of the Committee resigning is highly unlikely. The motion was lodged just hours after P&R ran a statement indicating that its members had no intention of stepping down.
But what do you think?
The Committee is being asked to quit after it failed to get its preferred tax proposals through the States a second time.
In response, the President of P&R said an early general election would be preferable, arguing that it’s the membership of the Assembly that’s the problem, not the leading Committee.
