UDP Holds NPC on the Way Forward

On Saturday morning at the ITVET Compound in Belize City, the United Democratic Party held a National Party Council meeting to discuss the future of the opposition party. One of the main topics was the upcoming leadership convention to endorse Tracy Taegar-Panton as the leader of the U.D.P. and to elect a new executive team. Key party members, including Mesopotamia Area Representative Lee Mark Chang, were present. After the meeting, Opposition Leader Tracy Taegar-Panton spoke to the media. 

 

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

“I am the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly and that is undisputedly the case.  I am also the interim party leader.  At the convention on October twentieth, we recalled Shyne Barrow and the delegates of the party asked me to serve as interim party leader until after the election when a leadership convention will be convened. Everything will happen in this party in due course.  It will happen conscientiously; it will happen constitutionally.  I can tell you already a number of new persons who are prepared to step up and support the party, to run for the party, but we are going to do things properly.  And, what we will not do is what Shyne Barrow did to this party.  We are going to follow the constitution and we are going to take things in due course. In the meantime, I have shown over and over again that I have the ability and the fortitude to move this party forward.  I have the ability and the fortitude to make difficult decisions in this party.  We will do what serves the best interests of this party, but most importantly we are going to make decisions that serve the best interests of this country.”