Tracy Panton: “We have Not Resigned; We Will Not Resign!”

The Alliance for Democracy, led by four members of the United Democratic Party who were deemed to have resigned, called a press conference today to categorically state that they have not and will not resign as members of the embattled party. Those four politicians are Albert Area Representative, Tracy Taegar-Panton, Collet Area Representative, Patrick Faber, Beverly Williams and John Saldivar. They presented a white paper that puts forward a proposal on how they intend to implement reform within the party. Notably, late this evening, the U.D.P. headquarters issued a press release, stating that the members of the Alliance are no longer U.D.P. and that the application period to fill vacancies for standard bearers in the areas they represent closes on September sixth. Taegar-Panton, who is supported by the Alliance as the party leader of choice, opened the briefing by explaining that they have not and will not resign from the U.D.P., regardless of what the leadership of the party says.

 

Tracy Taegar-Panton, Area Representative, Albert

“We want to be very clear to all those who are listening.  The members who were constructively resigned by fifteen members of the Central Executive Committee  would like to say  categorically  that we have not resigned from the United Democratic Party. We have not resigned.  We will not resign, and we will be running for our respective constituencies in the next general election. We also want to reject this narrative that members of this alliance representing sixteen constituencies is on a mission to destroy the party, that we are on a mission to destroy  the current party leader of the United Democratic Party.  What this alliance seeks to do is to preserve the democracy of the United Democratic Party And by extension, the democracy of Belize.”