ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC—Jamale Pringle, chief of the primary opposition United Progressive Occasion (UPP), says the celebration stays sturdy and united regardless of a second high-profile defection to the federal government.
Former data and telecommunications minister Dr. Edmund Mansoor, who has been affiliated with the UPP for greater than three many years, stop the celebration and was reported to 2 months in the past and has since been appointed Minister of Agriculture, Lands, and Fisheries.
Dr Mansoor stated he had submitted a resignation letter to the UPP’s common secretary, Shawn Nicholas, nearly two weeks in the past.
In a video broadcast, Pringle stated that Dr. Mansoor, who had additionally served as president of the Senate from 2004-5, was becoming a member of a celebration that he had lately severely criticized.
“Dr. Mansoor has determined to make use of me and the chair as his whipping canine in an try and justify and excuse his actions,” Pringle stated, including, “Having criticized the duly elected management of the UPP, he now seems to be comfy in a state of affairs that months in the past he condemned as a dictatorship. Watch video
“However nobody defects from the folks’s first celebration to the self-enrichment celebration based mostly on precept or data. I take this chance to encourage our members, our supporters, and our well-wishers to not be distracted.
“Make no mistake, the outcomes of the final election alarmed the ABLP, and because of this, they’ve devised a well-funded technique to derail this group and to choose off the morally and financially weakest in our celebration.”
Within the final common election held in January final 12 months, Prime Minister Gaston Browne led his ruling ABLP to a nail-biting victory, successful 9 of the 17 seats for a 3rd consecutive time period in workplace.
The celebration had received 15 of the 17 seats within the 2018 common election.
Pringle stated that the celebration should stay “resilient and steadfast and resist the efforts” of the ruling celebration to undermine the UPP, including that he was grateful “to all those that have responded to Dr. Mansoor’s defection with assurances of their loyalty, dedication and their love for our celebration and their willpower to battle on for the great of Antigua and Barbuda.”
Labour Occasion chairman EP Chet Greene welcomed Dr. Mansoor’s resignation from the opposition, telling reporters to realize a politician with 30 years of expertise who acknowledged the “worth, significance and significance” of the ABLP’s work is “encouraging.”
Obtain video – Opposition leader United Progressive Party (UPP), Jamale Pringle
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