Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday has sent off his list of recommendations for persons to serve on the Integrity Commission to President George Maxwell Richards.

Panday, in a brief telephone interview with the Express yesterday, confirmed that he sent the letter to Richards last Friday.

Richards had written to Panday requesting that he offer his recommendations.

The President appoints the members of the Integrity Commission after consultation with both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition.

Sources had informed the Express that Richards had a list of names of persons to form the new Integrity Commission. It has been six months since the collapse of the previous commission.

Although the wheels are in motion for the appointment of a new board, the UNC, at its National Assembly meeting on Sunday at the Rienzi Complex, Couva, passed a resolution on the President’s failure to appoint a Commission.

Panday said yesterday the resolution stands as to date there is no Commission in place.

It was unanimously agreed that the UNC executive demand that the President immediately comply with the provisions of Section 138 of the Constitution and the provisions of the Integrity in Public Life Act and appoint an Integrity Commission or face proceedings under the Constitution seeking his removal.

The National Assembly further resolved that the UNC Executive ’adopt all the necessary steps to highlight and expose this injustice, illegality and unconstitutional conduct by the President by way of mass demonstrations, protests and international actions aimed at exposing undemocratic conduct of the President and by extension the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago’.