Faber also spoke to us about next year’s municipal elections. is the deadline for potential candidates to submit their names to the UDP secretariat, so we asked the Deputy Party Leader about the candidate selection process, and his hopes for the upcoming elections...
Hon. Patrick Faber - Deputy Prime Minister
"We invite people who are interested all over the country for the - I think we have 9 municipal bodies for them to put in their applications. Once those applications are in there is a vetting process that is a part of the way we operate in the UDP, there is a nomination's committee that will look to all of these applications to make sure that those who have applied are suitable candidates and by suitable we mean they meet the criteria of us in the UDP who believe in putting forward righteous candidates and then once those candidates are accepted, the party will move to hold its conventions. We have set a deadline I think of November of this year to conclude all of those conventions although they can be before and so pretty soon you will see these conventions start happening and by November we will have all our candidates in place and we hope to be victorious in all of these municipalities. People are reminded that there is only one, Orange Walk where we don't have control of the council and even that we are going to gun for this time."
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