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After Three Months Of Flip-Flopping: Mayor Bradley Will Run Again
posted (June 11, 2014)

Today's marathon prime ministerial press conference was overtaken by national issues: but the first item on the agenda was a local one: the announcement that Mayor Darrell Bradley will offer himself for a second term. 

In a sense that brings us right back to where we started: February 27, 2014 – an afternoon press conference with the prime minister in that very same Caracol Rook on the fifth floor of the Radisson.  That's when the mayor said he would run again – and then immediately changed his mind.  He's been flip flopping like that in the three and a half months since.   But today, he announced that he will run:

Mayor Darrell Bradley - Will Run For Re-Election to Office
"Prime Minister, you have 100% committed mayor. It is something I regret in terms of my lack of certainty, and when one aspires to any office, one needs know that they're 100% committed to that office. That is why it has been difficult for me. But now, standing before you, I can say to the Prime Minister and to members of the public, that I am 100% committed to doing far more than we have done in this first year, and I know that it can be done with this team, with this City Council, and under the leadership of the Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow.

Hon. Dean Barrow - Prime Minister of Belize
"An understanding has been reached that allows His Worship, Mayor Darrell Bradley, to go forward as the United Democratic Party candidate for the Mayoralty that comes up at the City Council elections to be held in March 2015."

The Prime Minister announced that the door was re-opened for Bradley because the other two candidates for the UDP – Dion Leslie and BQ Pitts Jr have agreed to step down.

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