PM Briceño Keeps Election Date Close to the Vest

The date for the 2025 general elections is still a mystery, but Prime Minister John Briceño has hinted that the national vote will probably happen before June. He also noted that, despite their best efforts, he doesn’t expect the People’s United Party to win all thirty-one seats in the House of Representatives. However, if the P.U.P. does manage to sweep the polls and eliminate their political opponents, the prime minister says they’ll deal with that situation when it arises.

 

Prime Minister John Briceño

“Whilst I have not decided, but I think it will be more towards the first half of this year.”

 

Marion Ali

“If there is a clean sweep, would you appoint persons from losing political parties to oversight bodies like the Elections & Boundaries Commission and push forth for the appointment of the three senate seats for the opposition?”

 

Prime Minister John Briceño

“Why are you wishing this on me?  You know, it sounds good but, one: I don’t think that’s going to happen.  We are going to fight to win all thirty-one seats like in every election, but at the end of the day, we have to respect the wishes of the people, of the Belizean people and if they should decide to give us the thirty-one seats, it’s something that we’ll have to cross that bridge when we get there.  Let’s put it that way.”