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Hon. Saldivar Concedes Defeat to Hon. Faber
posted (May 31, 2016)
So, what about the man who is central to this supposed Cabinet Quake? Well, we got a brief opportunity to speak with John Saldivar later in the afternoon, and like his Cabinet Colleagues, when we addressed our information to him, he categorically denied it. Additionally, he tipped his hat to his opponent Patrick Faber, who bested him in Sunday's convention.

Here's how that conversation went:

Daniel Ortiz
"Our information was that the ministers who supported you showed up late for Cabinet meeting today because you all had a sidebar meeting and that you all came with ultimatums for the Prime Minister."

Hon. John Saldivar, Lost convention for UDP 1st Deputy Leader
"Absolutely no truth, I don't know where you guys get your information. Some members of Cabinet showed up late of course, that happens all the time. But I will tell you that we were in Cabinet. We had a normal Cabinet meeting g and its business as usual. The Prime Minister informed us in that meeting that next week Tuesday he will be appointing Hon. Faber as his Deputy Prime Minister. We fully respect that and we've been saying this from the very beginning and I think maybe people do not believe, Minister Faber and I are friends. We do have our own ambitions, we do have our own career path that we would like to take and part of it played out on Sunday and he won the first battle and I do believe that I will win the war."

And, for good measure Saldivar posted a comment on his social media page saying, quote, "…Patrick Faber has won. We respect his victory. We know our mistakes. We are correcting our mistakes. We will win the next time around but we respect his victory today. But please do not try to insinuate that we do not support our Leader. We support Right Honorable Dean Barrow to the max. And he knows that. We reiterated that to him today." End Quote.

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