Faber Criticizes August for Failure to Take Control of N.P.C.

Following the U.D.P. chairman’s departure, a group led by Albert Area Representative Tracy Panton proceeded with a meeting of their own, however, Deputy Chairman Alberto August did not take control of the meeting as he should have.  That’s according to former party leader Patrick Faber, who says that as an elected official within the party, August should have assumed full control of the N.P.C.

 

Patrick Faber, Area Representative, Collet

“If the chairman decides [that] he doesn’t want to be part of the meeting, by right, and I accused Mr. August, as well, of not doing his duty today because Mr. August had all right to then say, “You know what, let us continue with the meeting.”  If the chairman decides [that] he’s going to exit, that is on him.  If the leader decides that he is going to exit, that is on him.  They don’t make the National Party Council on their own.  I am not sure what the numbers were for today, but I am sure that we had well over a quorum.  I am sure that at the time when he exited nobody left with him.  I would be surprised if one person left with him when he left, so it was clear that we still had the amount of people in this room to conduct a meeting of the National Party Council.  So, if the chairman is not going to do his job, we’ve called on the vice chairman.  This is the first strike for the vice chairman, maybe he will reconsider. I was not pleased at all, and I think all of us share that view, with his actions.  He should have taken control of the meeting because he is duly elected.  The party leader, nor the chairman, can given any punishment to the deputy chairman for doing what he would have done because he is elected by the national convention.  Nobody can punish him, nobody can kick him off.”