Shyne Barrow, “The NPC is not just me.”

The National Party Council passed a motion on Friday endorsing Shyne Barrow’s leadership of the United Democratic Party.  The vote taken by members of the NPC effectively draws distance between the U.D.P. and the Alliance for Democracy which is planning a Unity Convention on October twentieth.  According to Barrow, the recent exercise indicates that as many as two hundred and seventy-two delegates are in support of several of the motions passed during Friday’s virtual session.

 

Shyne Barrow, Party Leader, U.D.P.

“The NPC is not just me.  It was a negative vote, meaning does anybody object.  But colleagues voted on record in solidarity with the leadership.  So it’s crystal clear that the National Party Council, a majority of the standard bearers, seventeen times sixteen is two hundred and seventy-two.  Almost all, I believe all of the central executive, that’s two hundred and ninety-two delegates.  So you always talk about the two hundred and eight or the hundred and seventy, what about the two hundred and ninety-two [delegates]?

 

Reporter

“Explain to me how are you trying to motivate your faithful standard bearers, those who are faithful you, to not allow their delegate group to be splintered and attend, because we know that can happen.  That can happen even in Mesopotamia.”

 

Shyne Barrow

“As you noted, this is not even a matter of being legitimate, it is not UDP activity.  So, the National Party Council has put that question to rest once and for all, so they can do whatever they want.  That has nothing to do with the United Democratic Party.”

 

Reporter

“But it does, though, because these are UDP personalities with relationships…”

 

Shyne Barrow

“These are people who were UDP.  You can do it like how people do it in America where people identify as whatever they want to identify as, but identifying as a UDP does not make you officially a UDP.”