Panton Chides U.D.P Nomination Day No-Shows

As you heard, Dean Samuels apologized to Tracy Taegar-Panton. However, she believes it’s a travesty and insists that all four candidates should have stepped aside well before Nomination Day.

 

Tracy Taegar-Panton, Party Leader, U.D.P.

“We have been from the onset fighting and promoting and defending the ideology of democracy. And in a democracy people should have a choice to make a decision. I think it is a travesty that candidates for whatever reason, and I really don’t know whatever those reasons were, decided at the eleventh hour to sit it out. If you knew you were not fit or prepared to lead, whatever the issue is that may have arisen, then you should have stepped aside and allow us to find a candidate to contest the elections. It is only fair and right that as Belizeans we have an opportunity to say who we wish to represent us in the National Assembly. I would not want to win anything by default, because I don’t know If that is a true reflection of what the people feel or what they hope to achieve by making their voices heard.”