May 6, 2012Dear Sir,I thought the following might be of interest to your readers. All references are to sections of the Bermuda Constitution:1) s49(2) requires that the legislature be dissolved within five years from the date of the first sitting of the House after the last election. It can be dissolved anytime before but, in the current situation, the House first met on Friday, February 1, 2008 and the House must be dissolved within five years of that date.2) S51(1) requires that whenever the Governor dissolves the House an election must be held within three months. All of this means that the Governor, presumably at the request of the Premier, will dissolve the House at some point before February 1, 2013 and will call an election, presumably after consultation with the Premier, for some date within three months after dissolving said House. I say ‘presumably’ because it’s the Governor who does all this and if the Premier does not ask him to do the dissolution within the five-year time frame set out in the Constitution ... the Governor will do it anyway ... because he is required to.POLLYSouthampton