A Bill entitled The Representation of the People (Postponement of Elections to Municipal Corporations and City Municipalities) Act 2022 is to be tabled in the House of Representatives Tuesday afternoon.
Last November Prime Minister Andrew Holness said he was not in favour of calling local government elections as the country was still dealing with the covid-19 pandemic.
Amendments to temporarily modify the Representation of the People Act, to allow the local government elections to be pushed back to no later than February 27, 2022 were approved in Parliament in November 2020.
The last local government general election was held on November 28, 2016, which means the municipal bodies have already exceeded their normal three-year term of office by more than two years.
