So why not just expel Faber and Panton from the party, rather than play the "constructive resignation" game? Barrow said he'd expected to be able to mediate with them and after a Kumbaya session, focus their energies on the government.
Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition
"It was our hope that we could mediate as you've heard many of the executives, not me, this is the first time you're talking to me in a few weeks and you've heard several members of the executive of the UDP tell you the truth, not the propaganda that they were spreading and explained to you that we have done everything to try and accommodate some type of mediation so we had anticipated by the constructive resignation, which was the precedent in 2011, that that would jolt them into coming to their senses and we could return and focus on the People's United Party because it really is a shame and an attack on our democracy when every time we speak, we need to speak about two members who can't have their way and are causing this distraction and this disruption until they get their way so rather than they attack the government, rather than they attack the policies of the government, rather than they put forward policies that they believe would be better for Belize. Rather than they do any of that work to strengthen our democracy, to create viable alternatives in our democracy to hold our government accountable, they're attacking me and then you, I respect your responsibility, I respect you have to ask because it's concerning but I think we do need to come to a point where we call them out, what do they want? They want Briceno to have unfettered powers to just do as they please without any checks and balances? Or they want to be leader and they want power in the UDP so badly?"
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