P.D.M. Says Belizean Voters are Ready for Change

The People’s Democratic Movement, despite the controversy that it faced last week, also turned up for Nomination Day.  Led by Estevan Perrera Senior, the P.D.M. arrived at the ITVET compound at midday and proceeded to sign up its slate of candidates who will contest the vacancy at City Hall.  After officially entering his name in the political race, we caught up with mayoral candidate Perrera.

 

Estevan Perrera Sr., Mayoral Candidate, P.D.M.

“It feels good, it really feels good because I never thought that this day would have come and now that is has come, it even spurs me up more to fight for the people of Belize.”

 

Reporter

“You’ve been campaigning leading up to today, what’s the sentiment from the residents of Belize City as you campaigned?”

 

Estevan Perrera Sr.

“Well a lot of the sentiments from the Belizean people is that they are tired of the red and blue and it’s time that they leave them.  And while we are in this movement right now it’s because and why we strongly believe that we will make it is because these people like in Gungulung and you got the other places like Ghost Town and you have Jungle, these are the places that I think the UDP and the PUP have really neglected because these people are living in some deplorable conditions and I think the government should take a walk behind there and see what’s happening.  And I think it’s because of them that I really want to defeat the PUP and the UDP because they have to understand that they preach these things about everybody fi win and if they go behind there, it proves that not everybody wins, only a few groups win.  So we are here for one thing, I want to stamp out corruption and that’s one of the main things I’m aiming at and also the wasteful spending of the taxpayers’ money.”