Last month, House Speaker Halson Moultrie addressed what he viewed as encumbrances to checks and balances in a democracy created by the executive branch holding a disproportionate number of seats in the House of Assembly.

At a special sitting of Parliament, he said, “When we started to get the huge, supersized Cabinets that we refer to in The Bahamas as the ‘Gussie Mae Cabinets’, that process actually diminished the function of the Parliament itself, because what that did is it permitted the executive branch to have sufficient numbers in Cabinet where when the executive branch enters the Parliament, they have sufficient numbers to outvote the backbench and the official opposition combined.

“That is not a good situation to have any democracy in,” he asserted.

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