As we told you last night - some UDP's are trying to circle the wagons around UDP Leader Patrick Faber - after he was exposed in the leak of a surveillance video showing a domestic flare up.
An anonymous group - who we know to include UDP political officers - Calle themselves the "The UDP Caucus for Change". They say they re a group pf former candidates, and aspiring candidates who want to rebuild the UDP.
A late evening release says quote, "This Caucus has found it necessary to make its position known on the recent public release of a video depicting our Party Leader the Hon. Patrick Faber in a moment indiscretion for which he has publicly apologized….we believe that the image portrayed and signal sent by this behavior and the fact that it is one more in a slew of similar indiscretions, warrants serious action by our Party.
Regrettably, our Caucus believes that the Party Leader has lost the trust of the Belizean people as well as a majority of constituency leaders and is now incapable of uniting the Party and leading us to victory in any future election.
We have therefore initiated a petition drive among the five hundred and thirty Party delegates for the recall of the Party Leader. This is allowed under the Constitution of the United Democratic Party and requires one third of Party delegates to trigger a recall convention where two thirds of the delegates in attendance will be needed to confirm his recall.
We hope to deliver this petition to the Party Secretariat with the requisite signatures in the next few days." End quote.
This release just came in and we are seeking comment.
