Former Magistrate Ian Le Marquand has topped the poll in the 2008 Senatorial election, placing first in all 12 parishes. Also elected or re-elected as Senator are Deputies Alan Breckon and Alan Maclean, Senators Paul Routier and Philip Ozouf and Deputy Sarah Ferguson. The four new Constables are Senator Len Norman (St Clement), Deputy Deidre […]
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Waterfront background: The ones who didn’t vote
A NUMBER of States Members who were present during the States sitting last week did not cast a vote when the key debate about the Esplanade took place.
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Housing Minister: Terry Le Main
Senator Terry Le Main has retained his seat as Housing Minister by just two votes over challenger Senator Alan Breckon. Senator Le Main won 27 votes and Senator Breckon, 25, in the election in the States today. The election of the Housing Minister completed the makeup of the Council of Ministers as follows, with the […]
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Who wants the top job, candidates are asked
WHO wants to be Chief Minister? That was the burning question at last night’s Senatorial hustings in St Saviour. Nearly 200 parishioners packed into the parish hall to hear the 21 candidates give their views on subjects ranging from whether the rainy day fund should be spent now or saved until later to how they […]
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Chief Minister: Choice of two
IT’S a two-horse race for Chief Minister with Treasury Minister Terry Le Sueur and Consumer Council chairman Alan Breckon lined up to go head to head on Monday. They were the only candidates to file their papers by yesterday’s deadline for the position vacated by Senator Frank Walker, who retired from the States yesterday along […]
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Cometh the hour, cometh the man?
ON Monday, 53 States Members will choose the person whose privilege it will be to serve as Jersey’s political leader until the end of 2011.
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Help promised to middle-income earners
ALL 21 candidates promised to help middle-income earners at a packed St John hustings last night. With less than a week to go to the Senatorial elections next Wednesday, the candidates vowed to support middle-income earners, with many agreeing that GST should be scrapped or that income tax exemptions and allowances should be protected. The […]
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Low GST is better than vote-catching exemptions
From Craig Leach. LYNDON Farnham (JEP, 5 June) suggests exempting food from GST. This involves adopting a mass of legislation, recruiting eight or nine civil servants costing £750,000 a year and losing revenue, much of which would be contributed by the wealthy big spenders. He would not knowingly suggest pouring money down the drain, but […]
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Hustings question: Missing States Members
THE 21 Senatorial candidates began their campaigning in earnest at St Clement’s Parish Hall last night. Just over 150 people crowded into the building for the first of the parish hustings meetings. St Clement Constable Derek Gray squeezed in six questions into the two-hour meeting by asking candidates to answer three questions at a time […]
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Breckon runs the poll topper a close second
DEPUTY Alan Breckon was celebrating after coming a close second to Ian Le Marquand. The chairman of the Jersey Consumer Council was sixth when the results started being announced but it was his home parish of St Saviour which rocketed him up to second place with over 1,500 votes. By the time St Helier had […]
