So why did the government wait 8 weeks to swear in representatives and open the new session of parliament? We asked the PM the reason for the delay, and he said, "what delay":
John Briceno, Prime Minister
"There's no such thing about delay, there's no such thing in the constitution or law that states that you must call parliament within one week or one month or whatever. You call when you feel it fits best. So there's no such thing. but we were trying, we wanted to make it even a bigger event. We were trying to see if we could've gotten somebody to come to Belize to address the first opening of parliament but it did not work out because that person, the schedule just did not work. But it also gave us time to make a readjustment with the budget, the budget was almost finished but because we changed some departments and some ministries were reconfigured. It took a little bit of time to be able to fix that so it was not deliberate but here we are today."
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