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And then there were three Cayo North's Omar Figueroa has submitted his name as a candidate for UDP Leader.  He did so this morning, joining Patrick Faber who put in his name on Monday, and John Saldivar who did the same on Tuesday.  Now, the expectation was that Figueroa would put in his name and run unopposed as a consensus candidate, since the party had indicated to both Faber and Saldivar that they should stand down after the debacle of the February convention.  

But, Faber claims that convention had a stacked list of delegates, so he put in his name, again, followed promptly by Saldivar, who said two can play that game.  It is left to be seen if either of them will now step aside with Figueroa's emergence. For the time being, the UDP's national convention set for April fifth has been postponed due to the Coronavirus.