“I will not be a part of the clown show.” – Mike Peyrefitte

Former party leader Patrick Faber has written to the chair of the United Democratic Party requesting a special meeting of the central executive committee to address violations that were purportedly committed by Party Leader Shyne Barrow.  In his letter, the Collet Area Representative brings to the chairman’s attention that several articles in the U.D.P.’s constitution were breached.  Citing a legal paragraph in the constitution, Faber puts forward that the national campaign manager is a member of the central executive committee.  Nonetheless, Barrow has wrongly stated that such is not the case, before proceeding to inform that an attempt has been made to replace Juliet Thimbrel as the U.D.P.’s national campaign manager.  Furthermore, Faber also says that the election of the chair and vice chair of a special committee for campaign was also not in accordance with the constitution of the party.  Those positions are required to be elected by secret ballot, as well as by a majority vote of the central executive committee.  Faber writes, “these actions have directly violated our party’s constitutional guidelines and threaten the integrity and democratic principles of the U.D.P”. In response, chairman Mike Peyrefitte has said that he will not convene a central executive meeting and that the only issue that matters at the moment is the upcoming bye-election in Toledo East.  He writes, “I will not attempt to waste anybody’s time who is serious about the success of this party and subject them to a CEC meeting where you and the party leader will get into a boxing match.  Hell no.  Do now what you must at this point, but I will not be a part of the clown show”.