And while the UDP controls the majority in the House - right now the PUP is trying to win over the hearts and minds of a majority of voters. They're the ones running ads for municipals elections, and on Sunday they were all geared to a national unity convention. That has since been re-scheduled due to bad weather - but today we asked Saldivar to compare his party's last contentious convention to the PUP's friction free event:..
Jules Vasquez, reporter
"Do you want to praise the PUP? They are having a convention on Sunday and so unlike the last UDP convention which is rife with division and everyone is left with hard feelings when it's done. Hard feelings which persists the last UDP convention when a deputy leader was elected."
Hon. John Saldivar
"I don't know that there was any acrimony out of that convention. Minister Faber and myself remains great friends, so I don't know that there was any."
Jules Vasquez, reporter
"Do you want to praise the PUP for their unity convention on Sunday?"
Hon. John Saldivar
"I think that they have to do what they have to do and they are trying to play catch up with us and so whatever they do is their business. My business is on March 7th to ensure that they don't get their hands on any form of public monies, whether it be government on national level or municipal level."
The PUP Convention has been re-scheduled for February 11th. The party put out a release saying, quote, "we were advised that many areas in the South and West are already experiencing worsening conditions as a result of incessant rains. We have been advised, also, that a flash flood warning will be issued by midday today for the entire country, and that the rains are expected to continue through Sunday."
We note that we have not been advised of any flash flood warnings, though, indeed, rains are expected to continue, and bridge closures in the west are a possibility.
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