And while the PUP is spending much of its time - publicly at least - finger pointing and casting aspersions on Ramos and his intentions - the UDP is watching the political shot clock. The ruling party has already gained one seat in Cayo North with a bye election in January. And now, the UDP is confident it can claim another - of course, with a heavy lotioning of petrocaribe funds. The Prime Minister says that with these body blows to the Opposition, it's getting more tempting to just call the elections early:
Hon. Dean Barrow, UDP Leader
"Tomorrow we will formally give you the timeline for the next bi-election in the constituency of Dangriga when the United Democratic Party will blow away the new candidate of the PUP and cement this stronghold almost that we are developing electorally in terms of the politics of this country. That will strike another blow, put an exclamation point behind this unstoppable UDP march to its 3rd term. So in a sense that announcement by the Honorable Ramos and of course we have already gotten hold of a message that Francis Fonseca has sent out to his standard bearers, they accuse Ivan of all kinds of things. That's why the man had to resign you know. I don't understand the People's United Party. You see how I tell you Darrell, even as he contemplates going to Belmopan, is still looking after the residence of Belize City and looking after those that are in the council's employed. We in the UDP look after our people. The PUP pushed out this man, then turn around when the man got support for his people still from Petrocaribe and the Julius Espat get up there and bad talk the man and he want to discipline the man like the man is his child. They don't know how to treat their own people. If they don't have any heart for those that represent them, those that are their candidates, how the hell they will have any heart for the general people of this country?"
"But Francis is about telling the rest of them now that it is greed and selfishness on Ivan's part that has caused him to resign. Ivan need to tell them 'don't watch me, watch yourself Francis.' You talk about the fact that you are so incompetent and inept, you are so absolutely impotent as a leader, you are so destructive, you are so hopeless that you Francis Fonseca as leader is causing the People's United Party to disintegrate - to break up."
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