| New Rules: No Challenges To PUP Party Leader |
| Fri, August 10, 2012 |
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The PUP National Executive met on Wednesday and though no press release was sent out - the Executive unanimously passed two resolutions, which, observers tell us, are huge.
Party Leader Francis Fonseca today confirmed that the two resolutions make it so that no challenge can be made to replace the Party Leader or the elected representatives as standard bearers - until after the next general election.
So, the effect of the new resolution is that for the next five years or so until the general election - when the party has national conventions - no one can offer himself or herself for leader. And at the divisional level - no one can offer themselves as standard bearer in an area that already has an elected PUP representative.
It's an unprecedented maneuver, one that effectively limits the party's internal democracy. Our reports are that the resolution was tabled by Deputy Leader Julius Espat to create a period of stability - which he noted will also be attractive to financiers.
Observers note that the resolution openly defies the party's constitution which ensures that quote, "All members of the National Executive except the Secretary General shall be elected at a National Convention and shall hold office for two years."
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