Two In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors have backed Gov­ern­ment’s con­tro­ver­sial bid to ap­ply a law retroac­tive­ly to re­voke a prime min­is­te­r­i­al pen­sion for Stu­art Young, who held of­fice for just 30 days.

Michael Si­mon de la Bastide, SC, and Court­ney Mc Nish spoke in sup­port of the Prime Min­is­ter’s Pen­sions (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025, which would dis­qual­i­fy for­mer prime min­is­ters from re­ceiv­ing pen­sions if they served less than one year and demit­ted of­fice af­ter March 10.

Young be­came prime min­is­ter on March 17, 2025, and served un­til April 28, when the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment lost the Gen­er­al Elec­tion. Un­der the cur­rent law, he qual­i­fies for a pen­sion of $87,000 a month.