Will the date for the General Election finally be announced tomorrow?

Will the date for the general election finally be announced tomorrow? During today’s Special Sitting of the Upper House, Lead Opposition Senator Mike Peyrefitte hinted that Prime Minister John Briceño might make an announcement soon. This comes as letters are being filed about the long-delayed redistricting exercise. Peyrefitte’s comment followed the government’s move to borrow one hundred million ahead of the general election.

 

Mike Peyrefitte, Lead Opposition Senator

“There are certain things you just shouldn’t do, you know, Madame President.  You don’t come to the National Assembly one month before an election and ask the National Assembly… oh it will be announced tomorrow.  You didn’t hear?  You’ll catch up, you’ll catch up.  You don’t come here at the end of your term to borrow a hundred and six million Belize dollars.  No man, we don’t know if the Belizean people will validate the mandate they gave you in 2020.  You don’t have any right to borrow in the name of the Belizean people if it’s something that can wait, since there is a difference between disbursement and borrowing.  It’s 101, not 2.0, and, Madame President, you wait to get the blessing of the Belizean people that believed in you, for you to have the right to borrow another hundred and six million dollars.  Quite frankly, Madame President, the people don’t see it and all these order papers given by Senator Courtenay.  Ih sound good, but we don’t believe.”