Last night on this newscast you saw former PUP Belmopan Candidate Amin Hegar explaining why he got back into the race for a new PUP Standard Bearer in Belmopan. That's after he had endorsed newcomer Jason Patrick Andrews. Cagey veteran that he is Hegar said that his committee wouldn't support Andrews and they called him to come back. Well, Julius Espat, who is the PUP Deputy Leader for the West is calling for Hegar to stand down. Espat today told us quite bluntly that Hegar can't come back:..
Jules Vasquez
"How do you view Mr. Hegar's return?"
Julius Espat - Deputy Leader, PUP
"There's no return, when you make a statement to your party leader that you tell your party leader and your deputy party leader that 'I will endorse Jules Vasquez for this' and that is a commitment you make to us then you cannot change your mind again because then you're being dishonest with the leader of the party and you're being dishonest with yourself and dishonest to the people that you are saying you want to represent. There's no coming back when it comes to that Jules. It's not that he spoke to me and the party leader alone you know, he spoke to Mr. Pat Andrews, he called a meeting of his executive and told them that he wanted to endorse Mr. Andrews, he went to that meeting with his people and Patrick's people and publicly made that statement; he made calls to his supporters to support Patrick. So, I don't understand where this is coming from."
Jules Vasquez
"He said his people didn't want to support Patrick, they want him."
Julius Espat
"Well, we're living in a different world."
Jules Vasquez
"So then he will be blocked, withheld, restrained from offering himself as a candidate?"
Julius Espat
"That is not my decision but I believe that if you disrespect the leader of a party and you're being dishonest to him and yourself then you're not worthy of putting your name on a ballot."
Hegar told us last night that the people, not Espat should decide.
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