The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) was “blatant” in what it did to buy votes with jobs before the last general election, according to Carl Bethel, Member of Parliament for Sea Breeze.
Mr Bethel said he saw the contracts left behind by the former administration showing that more than 50 employees were hired days before the April general election of 2007.
The “vast majority” of the new hires were constituents of Fort Charlotte, said Mr Bethel in the House of Assembly on Thursday. The jobs were for security and janitorial positions as well as secretarial and clerk posts.
Mr Bethel was responding to criticism from the PLP that the recently revealed FNM budget was a vote-buying scheme.
