Elvia Vega Samos: “I will serve my term to the very end.” 

Tensions between the PUP’s Corozal Bay area representative, Elvia Vega-Samos, and the party’s standard bearer, Thea Garcia-Ramirez, remain high.

Garcia-Ramirez defeated Vega-Samos in the recently held convention. This means that Garcia-Ramirez is the party’s standard bearer, with Vega-Samos effectively being a ‘lame-duck’ area representative. Now, there is a battle for the Corozal Bay constituency office. According to Vega-Samos, she is being evicted.

All 31 area representatives, not standard bearers, receive $2,300 monthly for office rent and staff salaries associated with the constituency office.

Vega-Samos says she will not vacate.

On Facebook, she posted, “Olive Branch (?) from major undermining from the very beginning of my term to being the only sitting area rep to be challenged to an unjust convention to now being told that I must leave the office. Total disrespect…. What’s next? I was elected by the people and I will serve my term to the very end.”

Vega-Samos was given until Friday to relocate.