Gonzales: Our democracy in peril

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September 20, 2025

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House Speaker Jagdeo Singh yesterday abandoned a ten-year-long practice and ruled that no supplementary questions could be put to the Prime Minister during Prime Minister’s Question Time, saying the Standing Orders do not provide for this.

Since the introduction of Prime Minister’s Question Time in 2015, follow-up questions have been permitted.

‘vexing debate’: Speaker Jagdeo Singh during yesterday’s sitting.

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