BARELY a week after resigning her Assistant Minister roles in protest at a lack of transparency in government and insufficiently strong leadership, Deputy Moz Scott has announced she will step away from the States Assembly entirely when the current political term ends in June.
The former lawyer confirmed that she would not be seeking re-election this summer, and would instead be focusing on a project that she had been unable to pursue while serving as a States Member.
Deputy Scott declined to share details of her forthcoming initiative, but did issue a statement about her decision, which she said had not been an easy one.
“It has been a privilege to serve as Deputy of St Brelade, and I am grateful for the trust and support of those who elected me, as well as the wider Island community,” she said.
At the time of her resignation from her assistant ministerial roles covering External Relations and the Economy Department said that she did not believe sustainable improvements in living standards could be achieved without reform of the Economy Department, stronger political leadership on economic policy, and a modern system of administrative redress.
Deputy Scott said she was proud of her work while in government, including working on Jersey’s new Cybersecurity Law, a Cybersecurity Policy Framework, the modernisation of intellectual property regulation, and policy work on online harms and data protection.
After narrowly failing to win the election in 2018, when she finished ninth in the battle for Senatorial places with 10,884, just 123 votes behind Sam Mézec, who claimed the eighth and final place, Deputy Scott was elected to represent St Brelade in 2022, when she finished second of nine candidates.
Her four-year spell in the States Assembly was not without controversy, including a 2023 investigation by the commissioner for standards that followed a prolonged spat with fellow States Member, Deputy Max Andrews.
