As the mess in the UDP continues to spiral - two things are happening: on one hand, the UDP splinter group called the Alliance for Democracy continues to march towards their October 20th convention. And on the other hand, the root UDP led by Shyne Barrow is consolidating its position against its opponents.
Today, Leader Shyne Barrow spearheaded a National Party Council meeting to, among other things, confirm the expulsion of Tracy Panton, Patrick Faber, John Saldivar and Beverly Williams.
Now, you might want to forget that he claimed he had already had this NPC. But, moving right along, he did do it today - except, in true form, it was all by WhatsApp group chat.
The resolution was put into an NPC group at 8:;00 in the morning - and screenshots we saw had leader Shyne Barrow constantly adding people to the group, loyalists who would vote yes to the resolution.
Hours later, the party put out a statement saying, quote:
"The National Party Council fully supports the Central Executive decision of August 28, 2024 in relation to John Saldivar, Tracy Panton, Patrick Faber and Beverly Williams..."
In the end we saw 40 persons supporting this in the Whatsapp chat.
Today the Alliance for Democracy splinter group leader Tracy Panton sent out a message saying:
"...the Party Leader has failed to garner majority support but has declared the motion passed. As of twelve noon, only 39 delegates to the NPC have voted in favor of the motion. The motion requires fifty percent plus one to be carried, which amounts to 59 votes out of the 116 delegates in the National Party Council. Yet at 12:03 pm the Party Chairman declared the motion passed without the requisite amount of votes, further proof that the Party is not being run constitutionally and that the expulsions were never validated."
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