Robert McDowall is petitioning fellow States Members to review the procedure which allows the public to select Representatives to the Guernsey States.
He will put an item in the March Billet asking the Policy and Finance Committee to examine whether the Plebiscite is the most effective means of electing the Island's two Alderney Representatives.
Billet records show that the Plebiscite procedure was approved at a States Meeting in October 2006 after being proposed by then President, Sir Norman Browse as a "pilot experiment" for the December 2006 poll. It committed the States to formally elect the two Representatives who took the highest number of votes, at their January 2007 meeting.
But it also included a proposal to review the arrangements via a public meeting, to be held in February 2007, whereby the States would obtain the electorate's opinion of the "experiment", and consider whether the Plebiscite needed to be incorporated into Alderney laws. The proposal noted that a low turnout at the Plebiscite "might be interpreted as a lack of desire by the electorate to be involved" in the selection of the Alderney Representatives. "A good turnout is important", it stated.
Mr McDowall said there was no documentation to suggest the review ever took place and that now, with the benefit of eight years' perspective, it would be timely for it to happen.
The Guernsey Bereavement Service has made three visits to Alderney over the past few months and would like to continue to help you. We are visiting the island again on
Tuesday, 23rd February 2024 and would invite anyone who feels they would like Bereavement Counselling to telephone the Bereavement Service Office on 257778 to make a time to meet one of our counsellors.
The Guernsey Bereavement Service has made three visits to Alderney over the past few months and would like to continue to help you. We are visiting the island again on
Tuesday, 23rd February 2024 and would invite anyone who feels they would like Bereavement Counselling to telephone the Bereavement Service Office on 257778 to make a time to meet one of our counsellors. 