But while the PUP's slate is set, the UDP's remain in a state of flux. Yesterday you heard Tracy Panton say that she will be running for the UDP. But Shyne Barrow and Michael Peyrefitte have said that there are no more olive branches left to extend, Panton and Faber remain expelled.
We asked Usher which faction he believes the Elections and Boundaries will allow to use the color red.
Henry Charles Usher, Minister of the Public Service
"That's a decision that the Chief Elections Officer would need to make bu you have to remember I think one of the sides was asking the Elections and Boundaries to determine who was the real UDP. But that's not something that the Elections and Boundaries gets involved in. As a matter of fact they don't recognize parties. When we're nominated as candidates, I am nominated as Henry Usher. Now I have to choose a color that I am going to run with and of course I will choose blue. But it's not that we are nominated as a member of the PUP or anybody else is nominated as a member of the UDP. You're nominated as an individual in the particular constituency that you want to represent. Now in terms of the decision as to who gets which color, that's up to the Chief Elections Officer. The tradition has been that the chief will always say, ok PUP, who is your slate of 31 candidates and those 31 candidates get the blue color, same thing to the UDP who are your candidates so that they can get the color red, but that's just a tradition, that's not found in any law and certainly it's a decision that the chief elections officer will need to make."
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