U.D.P. Faces Resource Challenges for Village Council Elections Amid Budget Delay

With no budget presented or debated at the National Assembly, the U.D.P. has yet to receive all the resources needed for the village council elections. Over the weekend, Tracy Taegar-Panton visited Toledo to start preparations for the elections. At today’s U.D.P. conference, she addressed whether she is financially ready to present a slate at the village council elections. Here’s what she had to say.

 

Tracy Taegar-Panton, Leader of the Opposition

“We are extremely busy with the work of rebuilding the party. And we have made a commitment that we’re going to rebuild this party from the ground up. We have scheduled destination visits to all thirty-one constituencies. So that we can meet with our executive committees, we can meet with our constituency committees, so we can look critically of what needs to be done in each constituency to restart or to start the building rebuilding process. So it differs in constituencies. For example, there are two constituencies, in the south that don’t currently have caretakers, those persons did not show up on nomination day. So the first order of business for Toledo East and for Dangriga is for us to find appropriate caretakers to help us deal with the issue of village councils elections for example. We are going to contest the village council elections and we will, as we did for the general elections, lean on our friends to support the effort to ensure that we maintain a healthy, a robust, and a functioning democracy.”