Dennison: Politicians Must Answer to People, Not Financiers

Union Senator Glenfield Dennison is also calling for campaign finance reform, saying elected officials cannot truly represent the people if they remain obligated to campaign financiers. Dennison says several draft laws already exist, but none has been meaningfully advanced. For him, campaign finance legislation is a key part of strengthening accountability in public office.

 

Glenfield Dennison, Union Senator

“There is a very important saying, if we messed up our independence, our colonizers will come back in the form of investors. We are forty-five years old as a nation. We have messed up, bav on this thing called independence and the evidence of that is that we are now being governed by people calling themselves investors. I won’t call any names, but the reason those people can run our country is because they control the campaign finance, because when the election is over and you see they go to the Governor General House to swear in, it is not them running the country you know, it is the people who finance their campaign to get them there. Mek we be real.”

 

Notably, back in 2020, the Briceño administration campaigned on a promise to implement campaign finance legislation. Those promises are yet to materialize.

 

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