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Deputy Lyndon Trott is facing a Code of Conduct complaint regarding comments he made during a States meeting while making a speech regarding the length of the runway at Guernsey Airport.
Retired Pilot Mervyn Dacey, who has spoken out on the matter publicly before, lodged a formal complaint with the Code of Conduct panel last week.
In his letter to the Chair of the panel, Judy Beaugeard, Mr Dacey refered to a speech made by Deputy Trott on 12 December 2018.
During that speech, the Vice President of the Policy & Resources Committee said P&R had reached the conclusion that the option of extending the airport runway will not be a game changer in respect of the island's connectivity.
Mr Dacey accused Deputy Trott of misleading the States "multiple times" during the speech and that, "it appears to be inconceivable that this was by accident..."
The former pilot claims Deputy Trott's speech "made selective use of parts of the then confidential PwC Report, to support its credibility; therefore what was said was impossible to rebut, because Deputies who had seen it were bound by confidentiality and those who had not seen it did not have the necessary information to be able to do so.
"The question is: were these honest mistakes made in good faith, but showing a remarkable lack of knowledge of the subject (whilst purporting to have that knowledge) or calculated misrepresentations of fact designed to influence the voting process in the subsequent Aurigny and Runway extension debates?"
The PwC report has since been released with P&R saying there shouldn't be any further work on plans to extend the runway.
Pictured: Deputy Lyndon Trott (centre) with Deputies Jonathan Le Tocq and Gavin St Pier.
Mr Dacey has asked the Code of Conduct panel to look at Deputy Trott's conduct, claiming he has made clear breaches of part of its namely acting in the public interest, his personal conduct and accountability, his openness, his leadership and the trust the public can place in him.
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