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Briceno Going On “Listening Tour”
posted (October 22, 2018)
And while Briceno is courting the pro-ganja vote, he's also doing some power balancing in his own party.

On Saturday at the PUP Northern Caucus meeting in Chan Pine Ridge - Florencio Marin Jr was elected chair of the northern caucus. Reports say the Briceno camp had hoped for arch-loyalist Kevin Bernard to take the seat, but Florencio Marin - who has never been a Bricenista - announced his interest in the post quite suddenly - and that, reportedly, led to Bernard yielding - in what turned out to be an endorsement.

And what may be seen as another concession to detractors, Briceno says that he's also going on a countrywide listening tour to learn how supporters feel about the ICJ:..

Hon. John Briceno- PUP Leader
"As the leader now, I have decided to go on a listening tour. I am going to go to all the 31 constituencies and listen and I hope that at the end of that tour I will be able to come up with a consensus of whether the party is going to be encouraging our people to vote yes or to vote no. So, the idea is that after that tour we are going to meet as an executive and I can give a report and say that this is the direction that the party believes we should go. That the members of the People's United Party are telling us we want you to go in whatever direction they decide."

Briceno gave that interview to CTV-3 on Sunday in Chan Pine Ridge.

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