Can “Boots” Help to Heal Broken U.D.P.?

The endorsement of former Area Representative “Boots” Martinez and two other U.D.P. standard bearers, amid a division within the United Democratic Party, has been met with criticism by the Alliance for Democracy, a faction within the U.D.P.  But what role, if any, will he play in the reconciliation process that is so desperately needed in the fractured opposition?  That’s what we asked Martinez this afternoon when we caught up with him in Port Loyola.

 

Anthony “Boots” Martinez, Former Area Rep., Port Loyola

“I will be joining in with the leadership of the party to see of there could be some impasse, to see where my advice could count politically, and so I will be involved as a party because [there’s] nothing like a united front.  But also too, da like ah seh, in my humble opinion, I think that on both sides of the coin, I think that you must not lose focus of the prize.  The focus of the prize are the people, your constituency and the country and especially the country which wants a viable opposition and I think the infighting is not helping at all.  And so the national issues are being put on the backburner.  And so I believe that we must get our act together.”