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In Year 11, Should UDP Still Be Winning Village Councils?
posted (July 3, 2019)

And now, the political focus has moved from the ICJ to the village council elections. And, depending on which Monday morning press release you listen to - the PUP is either winning a majority of the seats, or the UDP is winning that majority.  

But, both sides agree, its fairly close - which we wondered, 11 YEARS INTO the UDP reign - should it be a contest at all?

Jules Vasquez
"Is it not anomalous that they are still winning village council elections and isn't that an indication that the PUP is not picking up the traction that it should with one and a half years, or one year and three months to go to an election?"
 

Hon. John Briceno - PUP Leader 
"Absolutely not. Even the devil has its followers and the UDP still has its followers. Nobody will deny the fact that they have followers. The fact is that we have been making gains all over the country. Corozal, and we can talk about it afterwards, but if you look at the villages that are having elections in the Corozal district for the past two weeks are villages that have always voted UDP. So, I am not surprised by that. But we have been making gains a little at a time. To me, what is important is that we are moving in the right direction, that we are going out to be able to defeat the UDP in the next election."

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