There has been si­lence from the gov­ern­ment bench in the Up­per House, as sev­er­al gov­ern­ment sen­a­tors have re­fused to iden­ti­fy the two in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors ac­cused by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of at­tempt­ing to so­lic­it per­son­al favours to se­cure their vote for the Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) bill.

This fol­lows Tues­day’s failed Sen­ate vote on the ZOSO bill, which saw an al­most unan­i­mous op­po­si­tion from the in­de­pen­dent bench, with eight of the nine in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors vot­ing against it.

De­spite pre­vi­ous­ly la­belling the in­de­pen­dent bench as “bootlick­ers” and now pos­si­bly breach­ing sev­er­al laws, the Prime Min­is­ter has not named any names.