Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to ei­ther name the In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tors she ac­cused of seek­ing per­son­al favours in ex­change for leg­isla­tive sup­port, or with­draw the al­le­ga­tion en­tire­ly.

Pan­day said the Prime Min­is­ter’s com­ments, made in a so­cial me­dia post fol­low­ing the de­feat of the Law Re­form (Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions) Bill, amount to a se­ri­ous ac­cu­sa­tion of cor­rup­tion that can­not be left vague or un­re­solved.

In her post, Per­sad-Bisses­sar claimed, “Dur­ing the de­bate, two of the Pres­i­dent’s Sen­a­tors ap­proached a se­nior Gov­ern­ment Sen­a­tor seek­ing per­son­al favours in ex­change for sup­port and for se­cur­ing the re­main­ing votes need­ed for pas­sage. Those re­quests were re­ject­ed. From that mo­ment, it was clear the Bill would not pass. They know who they are. They must live with that shame.”