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Media shouldn’t focus on no-confidence losses — Fraser

Media shouldn’t focus on no-confidence losses — Fraser

Third District Representative Julian Fraser has urged the media not to focus on the lack of visible success that may be achieved through his promised no-confidence motions in the House of Assembly (HOA).
Fraser assured the public weeks ago that the newly elected government will face multiple no-confidence motions in the House, even before the government had any opportunity to announce its agenda. Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley later denounced the Opposition for what he suggested was a demonstration of their bad intentions.

Fraser, in the meantime, suggested that, despite the fact that those promised motions are likely to fail given the Opposition’s minority in the HOA, it was what the motions are likely to unearth that matters most.

“Our media has to see the procedures of democracy for what they really are,” Fraser said. “I move a motion of no confidence, and of course, I can’t win. But the point is not to win always.”

He added: “Sometimes you go in there knowing you’re going to win because somebody in the government side is going to vote for it. But it’s what you bring out with this motion of no-confidence, that’s what’s important.”

Fraser explained that it is important for the Opposition to point out instances to the public where the government is faltering and where it is not doing what it is supposed to be doing.

“That’s what the media is supposed to concentrate on, not that I got a shellacking because I lost… That’s not the point,” he stated.

According to Fraser, the media is supposed to always be critical of an administration.

“If I find the media supporting an administration, I’m saying that the media is in bed with the government and that’s never a good to say about the media,” he added.
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