For third time, PUP Senator Anthony Sylvestre, is going up against Prime Minister Dean Barrow to try to unseat him as area representative of the Queen Square Constituency.
Now, as viewers may know, that's considered one of the safest seats in the country: the Prime Minister has been the area rep for Queen Square since 1984 - and in 31 years, he's undefeated.
And in the last election he won by more than 1,500 votes, gaining 80% of the vote.
But, even though the Prime Minister has defeated him twice before, at the next general elections, Sylvestre believes he can convince Queen Square to vote him into office. He was officially sworn in as the standard bearer for that constituency at the PUP's Belize City manifesto launch at the ITVET Compound on Saturday. That's quote a distance from Queen Square, but here's how he explained his chances of winning:
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