Jack Warn­er deems it spite­ful and vin­dic­tive of the Speak­er to de­clare St Joseph MP Her­bert Vol­ney's seat va­cant yes­ter­day.Un­der Sec­tion 49 A of the Con­sti­tu­tion, Speak­er Wade Mark called on Vol­ney to cease per­form­ing his du­ties as MP.Vol­ney shook hands with Warn­er af­ter hear­ing the news and waved his hand back­ward at the cham­ber while walk­ing out.Warn­er, the ILP leader and MP for Ch­agua­nas West, called on Vol­ney to re­sign and have the gov­ern­ment tried in the court of pub­lic opin­ion."I think it is vin­dic­tive. I think it is provoca­tive. It is an at­tempt to frus­trate any of those mem­bers on the oth­er side who were even hav­ing thoughts about join­ing the ILP. I don't think what was done to­day was con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly right. I be­lieve Mr Vol­ney has a case and will win in any court.

"I will urge him and beg him to re­sign his seat of­fi­cial­ly–still fight the case, but let us take Mrs Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her gov­ern­ment on in the court of pub­lic opin­ion, since they are so strong and pow­er­ful. Since they can rail­road their way through­out, let Mrs Per­sad-Bisses­sar, SC, MP, come to St Joseph and fight."In the mean­time, I told Mr Vol­ney I will act in Par­lia­ment as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive for St Joseph and Ch­agua­nas West."What was done to­day was a trav­es­ty of the worst kind," he said.He chal­lenged the PM to al­low the UNC and ILP to face off in a by-elec­tion for the now va­cant seat.He said the ac­tion by Per­sad-Bisses­sar had de­stroyed Vol­ney, re­call­ing that Per­sad-Bisses­sar sat down in Dr Su­ruj Ram­bachan's house with Car­los John, Ram­bachan and Vol­ney and begged him to leave the bench.

He said there was a God and, "Mark my words, Mrs Per­sad-Bisses­sar and every one of them on that bench will pay for what hap­pened here to­day."Asked if he would sup­port Vol­ney in a by-elec­tion, Warn­er said, "I will beg him not to fight it in court. I will beg him to step down. Let them face a by-elec­tion."But in the mean­time let the prime min­is­ter and her par­ty, the mem­bers she has there who are now hav­ing their fun, let them fight this in the court of pub­lic opin­ion."Asked if he would sup­port Vol­ney as an ILP can­di­date for the elec­tion, Warn­er said, "Mr Vol­ney told me he is no longer in­ter­est­ed in elec­toral pol­i­tics. So what­ev­er hap­pens he was nev­er go­ing back in any case."Warn­er said he will put up a can­di­date to fight if there is a by-elec­tion.