Subdued in South-East

Friday 4th April 2008, 2:29PM BST.

THE turnout for the South-East hustings was lower than expected, according to chairman Dudley Jehan.

About 260 St Martin’s and St Andrew’s parishioners turned out to quiz the 11 candidates on topics ranging from the possible closure of St Andrew’s Primary School to the island’s future economic development,

But it had been hoped that more than 300 would attend. Mr Jehan (pictured) said organisers had considered using St Martin’s Community Centre as a venue, but had decided against it because they thought it would be too small. The hustings was held in the Grammar School hall.

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Bruce

April 4, 2008 at 6:11 pm

Could this be because there was no publicity about it? I wanted to attend but only heard on the radio about those in the West and the Vale!
It seems our prospective candidates are not really putting themselves forward to be challenged by the public they expect to vote for them. This is also reinforced by the lack of real world contact information supplied on the States website listing election candidates. Half have no phone or email addresses listed. Are they working with snail mail and is this the backward attitude that we want from people leading us into the future?

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