Yesterday, we gave you a small snippet of the complaints from which the PUP Councillors of the Twin Towns of San Ignacio and Santa Elena have brought publicly against their UDP Mayor, Earl Trapp Jr.
As we told you, in the March 2021 Municipal Elections, the towns' voters elected a mixed local government council: 5 PUP Councillors, a UDP Mayor, and 1 UDP councillor.
For the last 9 months of this new administration, the elected politicians representing both mass parties have been trying to work together, but, their internal feuding over decisions connected to the management of the towns' affairs seems to have come to a head over the selection of a new town administrator.
The Mayor said that he had to shut down their attempts to hire an unsuitable candidate as the new Town Administrator. This week, those councillors have fired back with a press conference of their own to say that actually, they have bigger issues to quarrel with the Mayor over.
They're alleging nepotism and mismanagement of public funds, and tonight, you'll get to hear a few of the arguments from both sides of this quarrel.
We start first with a response from Mayor Trapp on a few of the themes that came out of the PUP's press conference. He insisted that they are engaging in political mudslinging:
