There's more opposition to the proposed ninth amendment to the constitution and its coming from the People's United Party. The P.U.P. is the most recent organization to come out against the amendment. While the P.U.P. acknowledges the government's power to entrench control of utilities in the constitution, it says that the remainder of the bill is "fraught with peril for Belizean democracy." That refers to the proposed change to section sixty-nine, which would disallow legal challenges to the content of future constitutional changes. According to the P.U.P., if passed, the bill would make the National Assembly more powerful than the Constitution, by removing from the Courts the obligation to act as a check and balance on the Legislature and to safeguard the basic structure of our Constitution. The release says that Belizeans are rightly concerned because unlimited power to change the Constitution should not be granted to any Parliament in Belize. It is also condemns the "drastic and imperious manner" in which the government is seeking to remove the role of the courts as a guardian of our democracy. The Opposition is calling on the prime minister to cease what it calls a naked power grab and to remove the offending sections proposed from the ninth Amendment Bill.
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