Five days af­ter Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Sen­a­tor Janelle John-Bates ten­dered her res­ig­na­tion, Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has yet to in­di­cate whether she will ac­cept it, while the Gov­ern­ment re­mains silent on how it will re­spond if John-Bates or Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi ap­pear in the Up­per House, start­ing to­day.

Con­tact­ed for com­ment yes­ter­day, Beck­les of­fered a brief re­sponse: “I will let you know AS­AP.”

On the Gov­ern­ment’s next move, Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness in the Sen­ate, Dar­rel Al­la­har, de­clined to be drawn in­to the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing John-Bates, re­ply­ing on­ly, “No Com­ment.”