Now it is that same balance in ethnicity in the UDP that dictated the outcome of the 2013 race for the FIRST Deputy Party Leader Post. You all may remember
that Faber tried to unseat Gaspar Vega in 2013 but lost. Another important element to that story is that Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced publicly that
he did not support Faber. Now, how confident is Faber this time around that he will get the Prime Minister's support and come out victorious as the new
DPL? Well he told us he is very confident but that if he doesn't win, he will accept that too and move on.
Hon. Patrick Faber - Minister of Education
"I turn 38 on Monday. I am a very young man, in fact I continue to be one of the youngest in the Cabinet and I've been the youngest up until Hugo Patt
came actually and so I am not contemplating to lose as you pointed out so rightly; but if it is not my time for it to happen and if the people of the
party given the mechanism that we have right now say Faber it's not your time, then it's not my time. I don't know that I will offer myself any
further, I don't know but as you know my life so far has been one of service to the people. I am not a perfect man so I will be right here continuing
to serve the people. The people of Collet can be assured that I am not going anywhere in a hurry. I am not going to be like some of those very
abstinent politicians especially my friend the Rt. Honourable member from the other side of the house who is at 70 and refuses to go practically. That
is not going to happen to me but certainly I am nowhere near that stage and in fact I have a bright future in politics."
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