Shyne Barrow Explains Failed Convention Request

During a press conference earlier today, Party Leader Barrow basically explained why the request for a national convention was dead on arrival.

 

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

“When I talked to my colleagues and we talked about moving the party forward, and unifying the party, and having stability, and having certitude going forward, this is what we discussed.  And initially, the matter was raised by the N.P.C. and there are certain colleagues who sit at the head table now, against me, who said, “No, the N.P.C. cannot make this determination because if the N.P.C. makes this determination, then the N.P.C. could come right back and change it.  This needs to go to the national convention, it needs to be voted on and once that vote is taken nothing can reverse that.”  So it is not that the party chairman has discretion or no discretion.  Petitioners do not have the right to petition a national convention because we, the national convention, five hundred and twenty-one of the delegates, from all thirty-one constituencies decided that we would not do that.  Those are the cold hard facts and it’s interesting that they were disseminating information that it was against me.  This petition is to move the entire leadership executive, to move Hugo, to move the party chairman, to move Alberto August.  So nobody thought on August 13^th, 2023, that any such move would be in the best interest of the party.  And in order to show how serious we were about protecting the institution from anarchy and tyranny we went further and put a motion to say, “Listen, no more national conventions, no more leadership questions until after the next general elections and that’s all the party chairman is doing.”