And while the Minister called it irresponsible to attempt to vote while COVID positive, he was optimistic about the UDP's path to victory, whatever the voter turnout.
Like Briceno, Faber is facing what could be a make or break election: he was elected as party leader by only a very narrow margin - and the pressure is on him to prove himself as a leader worthy of succeeding Belize's only three term post independence Prime Minister Dean Barrow. But, he's unfazed by the moment; he sauys the mood right now is victory:
Patrick Faber, UDP Leader
"The mood right now is victory and of course we are pounding the pavement every last opportunity we have to be in homes in a safe way and also working the phones to make sure that we are prepared to get the voters out tomorrow and I believe that effort has been tremendous on the part of our party and will prove successful tomorrow. That's the message that I've been getting from our candidates resoundingly across the country."
"As you know we may not have had the opportunity to do the same kind of campaigning that we would normally do. I believe that we could have done a better job had we not had the Covid situation of getting into the homes of our voters for instance. But I think we've done the best job that we can do under the circumstances and the good thing about the handicap that we have is that it's the same handicap that all who are in this race have and so we are confident that we have done enough and that we have of course rallied our troops, made sure that our voters are awaken and so tomorrow it's just to get them to the polls and to get them to the polls safely."
