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\u00a0Prime Minister Gaston Browne says he remains Antigua and Barbudans will vote in support of replacing the London-based Privy Council as the region\u2019s final court.<\/p>

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Browne, speaking ahead of the release of a poll conducted by the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Research Services (CADRES) on Monday, said that he is confident that voters will provide the necessary 67 per cent needed during the November 6 referendum to replace the Privy Council with the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are just about there and we now need a sufficient margin to make sure we do not fall short of the 67 per cent which is what we are working on now to make sure\u2026<\/p>

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\u201cWe are literally at 67 per cent, the problem is we do not have a wide enough margin for comfort (and) that is what we are working on at this time,\u201d Browne said.<\/p>

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Prime Minister Browne, who in the past has called for a non-partisan approach to the CCJ-Privy Council, also acknowledged that it may an uphill struggle to get voters to cast ballots on November 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe challenge is to get them out on referendum day,\u201d he said, hinting at using the machinery of the ruling Antigua Labour Party \u201cto make sure we get that 67 per cent.<\/p>

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\u201c Now as I said the poll would have indicated that we are there at this point but what we do not have is a sufficiently large enough buffer to make sure that if there are any slip up\u2026that we still end up with the 67 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo we will be working over the next two weeks to try and increase that margin, so that in the event of any unforeseen circumstances or any slip\u2026that we still end up with the 67 per cent,\u201dBrowne said.<\/p>

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Both Grenada and Antigua and Barbuda will hold their vote on November 6 regarding the CCJ which was established in 2001 to replace the Privy Council and which also serves as an international tribunal interpreting the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas that governs the 15-member regional integration movement, CARICOM.<\/p>

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