Who will represent the PUP in Belmopan? On Tuesday, you saw PUP hopeful for Belmopan Amin Hegar and PUP deputy Leader for the West Julius Espat shot him down – saying he "can't run." And while the PUP have to play out that internal struggle – who would the incumbent John Saldivar rather face? He told us today:
Hon. John Saldivar - UDP Belmopan Representative
"Anyone of them can come Jules; I am very confident. The hardest election to win is the election when they're looking to be re-elected in government; we did that, I did that in 2012."
Jules Vasquez
"Yes, but you only won by a little over two hundred votes."
Hon. John Saldivar
"That's enough to put me in the national assembly and I am sure that will happen again when the next elections comes. Whosoever their candidate is."
Jules Vasquez
"Amin Hegar came dangerously close to an upset in 2012; wouldn't you prefer to face Jason Patrick Andrews being that he's a political newcomer and a rookie?"
Hon. John Saldivar
"The road already travelled is the easy road to travel again."
Jules Vasquez
"How do you view the jostling between Andrews, Julius Espat and his candidate Jason Patrick Andrews."
Hon. John Saldivar
"I find it amusing; whatever happens, I won't interfere in the PUPs' internal process. I think it speaks a lot to the type of character of the gentlemen that are involved in this; they serve their own special and self interest and their words cannot be trusted, but I won't get into that; I'll wait for whosoever they decide to bring to me."
And while that's the UDP side, today on FACEBOOK, the PUP side aired out their dispute with Espat posting that "If candidates cannot be held responsible for what they say, or what they will do, then how can they be true representatives of the people? We wonder now, why people have lost faith in our politicians."
To which Hegar commented, quote,
"I am not a dishonest politician as I was called by Juiius moreover a Politician especially of the same party should never try to discredit his colleagues in public. Does listening to the clamor of the people to represent them means being dishonest?"
We get the sense this one is far from over.
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