Tracy Preparing to Announce her Standard Bearer Picks

With less than two weeks to go before the official nominations for the 2025 general elections, the U.D.P. still hasn’t announced all its candidates. Tracy Taegar-Panton has confirmed that Lee Mark Chang is her choice for the Mesopotamia constituency and that she’ll be using red on the ballot sheet. Here’s more on that.

 

Tracy Taegar-Panton, Albert Area Representative

“We certainly have not officially sent out a flyer declaring who our candidates are, and we haven’t officially launched that. There will be an appropriate time when our delegates will be formally introduced. And let me say, the United Democratic Party has thirty-one standard bearers vying for the election.  We maintain that that thirty-one were those candidates. For those of us who went to a contested or endorsement convention, with the exception of Mesop. And the Mesop matter came to be when the executive of committee of Mesop sought an audience with me and ask for a new standard bearer, which is their legal and constitutional right to do. And so there is now a new, based on the strength of that the new UDP standard bearer in Mesop in the name of Lee Mark Chang. There is one United Democratic Party that has thirty-one candidates. I’m not aware that there will be an election on March twelfth of this year. As far as I am concerned, there is one UDP.  I don’t know what determination or consideration will be taken by the Election and Boundaries Commission. The ROPA, the Representation of Peoples Act, gave that discretion to the Election and Boundaries Commission. However, I am certain that they will have to take into account the judgment from today’s hearing where the preferred position of Shyne Barrow has not been entertained.”