Senator Ozouf - yes or no

Dear Rico, 

You, amongst a number of people, have asked of my intentions as to Chief Minister. 

You may be interested to see my latest post on www.ozouf.je 

I distributed this to media, spoke about in the States and have tweeted the link. 

Hope this answers your question. 

Best regards, 

Philip Ozouf

Today I made this statement to the States Assembly.

“The next States Assembly is beginning to take shape. 6 serving Senators will continue in office, 8 Constables and 3 Deputies have now been elected unopposed. 4 Senators, 26 Deputies and 4 Constables will be elected on 19th October from 82 candidates in Jersey’s largest single election.

This year, none of the candidates is representing a political party; each is seeking election as an independent with individual policies. It is vitally important that the electorate understands the individual policies of each candidate and elects or rejects on the basis of these policies, as well the skills and experience they can offer.

There has been speculation about whether or not I will declare my intention to allow my name to be proposed for Chief Minister at this time.

The process laid down for electing the Chief Minister is set out in Standing Orders. In summary: following an election, any candidate should:

i) Be nominated by at least 6 elected members;
ii) Set-out the candidate’s vision for a Strategic Policy;
iii) Set-out the manner in which he or she would propose to discharge the responsibilities as Chief Minister; then later,
Iv) Address the Assembly for 10 minutes;
V) Be questioned by elected members for 40 minutes

At that stage a ballot or ballots of members will be taken.

The appropriate time to discuss the Chief Minister role is after the elections.

This will allow the electorate to assess candidates in the forthcoming General Election fairly on their own intrinsic merits and policies rather than on the basis of an alignment behind a particular Chief Ministerial candidate.

One thing that I believe all Members will wish to see in a new Assembly is less division, with Members collectively making decisions on the basis of what is in the best interests of this Island to draw lines of division before the new Assembly has even sat.

There are a number of weeks between the Single Election Day and the Election for Chief Minister. Once the outcome of the election is known, candidates for Chief Minister should declare their interest quickly, publish their manifesto and intensive debate should follow as to their respective policies. This should include public hustings, TV and radio debates.

Whilst I have received support from a number of members, for which I am grateful. I, like other candidates, will reserve my position on whether or not to permit my name to be proposed as a candidate for Chief Minister until after the elections.

Any candidate will need to lead the Council of Ministers and ensure they get a sufficient number of members supporting to be in a position to govern Jersey in the best interests of the Island. Such a determination is not possible until after the public have elected the Assembly.

I am mindful that I am not up for election, but over the next few weeks, I will be publishing my views on a range of issues which need to be focused on over the next three years.

In the meantime I wish all candidates the very best with their elections.”

Philip Ozouf

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Dear Senator Ozouf

 

Thanks for your reply

 

Havind read your press release it is just more of the same old waffle. It was like yesterdays questions without answers in the States. You cant give a straight forward yes or no.

 

You should declare now if you intend to be the next Chief Minister

 

You should be able to take the states assembly and the people of JERSEY Forward - no matter who is elected or what their political views are.

 

I will be honest Senator and say the reason you have not declared is because you lack the courage to do so. You show fear, you show fear as to how the assembly might look after the election, this should have no bearing on you declaring seeing as we don't have political parties.

 

Courage is what is required Senator

 

Do you have that courage?

 

Are you standing for Chief Minister

 

Kind Regards

 

Rico Sorda

Running for Chief Minister Mr Ozouf?-1

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Dear Senator Im still awaiting your reply to my email dated the 7th September 2011 You have found the time to tweet these past couple of days so one would be hoping that you would find the time to reply to a member of the public concerning your intentions of running for Chief Minister . Senator Le Marquand has shown the way in this respect  I have no doubt that the Lime Grove fiasco has been a huge blow. The blame game is in full swing, no point in 'HEDGING' any bets down at the Treasury as to who will be the fall guy on this one. Im sure Ian Black will be following it closely . So, Senator Ozouf - Do you intend running for the position of Chief Minister Yes or No?   Lets, just for once, have a straight honest answer devoid of any waffle or Rankine Spin Kind Regards Rico Sorda

A Speech for Censure

Chief Minister 

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Dear All On this rather hot night I was trawling through the order paper for tomorrows States Sitting what grabbed my attention was the comments on the vote of censure against the Chief Minister.  Now, do you laugh or cry at the comment I reproduce below?   COMMENTS    The Council of Ministers express its unqualified support for the Chief Minister and his leadership over the last 3 years. Ministers believe that a Vote of Censure is an important matter that should only be brought forward for matters of conduct and not differences in political opinions.    The Council of Ministers urges States Members to reject this Vote of Censure.  Just what Planet are you guys living on? Haven't you any idea of the anger that is being directed towards this Council of Ministers and it's weak leadership? Just staggering it really is. The way the Chief Minister has misled the house over the Graham Power Napier Debacle is bad enough - and that is evidenced fact.  Now I could be up all night listing a whole load of evidenced failures of this shambolic ministerial reign but lets leave it with the 13 very serious points raised in the Deputy's motion.  So, the challenge for all you States Members who want to defend the Chief Minister is to do so without copying or even coming close to the speech I have just written. Here is my Speech. Anyone who Copies it, like I  said, should pay a donation towards Holiday for Heroes because you have not addressed any of the issues raised in the motion and therefore not defended the Chief Minister. "Sir, it is with great regret that I am having stand in front of this assembly and defend the reputation of the Chief Minister.  Sir, the Chief Minister has acted with the utmost integrity in these difficult times.  The Chief Minister has shown all the characteristics of strong leadership and courage in making the tough decisions that sees Jersey well placed on the International Stage.   Sir, whilst I have the utmost respect for the good deputy, surely this censure motion is nothing more than political point scoring.  In a time when we seem to be spending more and more hours in the States Chamber surely the good deputy would be better placed in concentrating his efforts in bringing more urgent and pressing issues before the house.    I do not wish to take up much more of States members' time on this.  Sir and fellow States members, you will have noticed how I have managed to make a very short speech in defending the Chief Minister without referring to any of the very serious issues raised in Deputy Pitman's censure motion.  In doing this I would urge all members to reject the censure motion and make a similar speech to mine where it is short, unsubstantiated, does not cover any of the issues raised and gives £10 to Holidays for Heroes".    Good Luck Don't nick my speech Rico Sorda Team Voice

Dear All On this rather hot night I was trawling through the order paper for tomorrows States Sitting what grabbed my attention was the comments on the vote of censure against the Chief Minister.  Now, do you laugh or cry at the comment I reproduce below?   COMMENTS    The Council of Ministers express its unqualified support for the Chief Minister and his leadership over the last 3 years. Ministers believe that a Vote of Censure is an  important matter that should only be brought forward for matters of conduct and not differences in political opinions.    The Council of Ministers urges States Members to reject this Vote of Censure.  Just what Planet are you guys living on? Haven't you any idea of the anger that is being directed towards this Council of Ministers and it's weak leadership? Just staggering it really is. The way the Chief Minister has misled the house over the Graham Power Napier Debacle is bad enough - and that is evidenced fact.  Now I could be up all night listing a whole load of evidenced failures of this shambolic ministerial reign but lets leave it with the 13 very serious points raised in the Deputy motion.  So, the challenge for all you States Members who want to defend the Chief Minister is to do so without copying or even coming close to the speech I have just written. Here is my Speech. Anyone who Copies it, like I  said, should pay a donation towards Holiday for Heroes because you have not addressed any of the issues raised in the motion and therefore not defended the Chief Minister. Sir, it is with great regret that I am having stand in front of this assembly and defend the reputation of the Chief Minister.  Sir, the Chief Minister has acted with the utmost integrity in these difficult times.  The Chief Minister has shown all the characteristics of strong leadership and courage in making the tough decisions that sees Jersey well placed on the International Stage.   Sir, whilst I have the utmost respect for the good deputy, surely this censure motion is nothing more than political point scoring.  In a time when we seem to be spending more and more hours in the States Chamber surely the good deputy would be better placed in concentrating his efforts in bringing more urgent and pressing issues before the house.    I do not wish to take up much more of States members' time on this.  Sir and fellow States members, you will have noticed how I have managed to make a very short speech in defending the Chief Minister without referring to any of the very serious issues raised in Deputy Pitman's censure motion.  In doing this I would urge all members to reject the censure motion and make a similar speech to mine where it is short, unsubstantiated, does not cover any of the issues raised and gives £10 to Holidays for Heroes.    Good Luck Don't nick my speech