And earning the position is more often than not fraught with both difficulties and double-crossings but the chairman says that's just the nature of the beast, here's what he said about the political health of the UDP and why he thinks the last two years of upheaval are just what the doctor ordered:
Cherisse Halsall
"The characterization sir is that it has been a few years of fractiousness and in fighting in the UDP. You said you do not agree..."
Micheal Peyrefitte - Chairman of the United Democratic Party
"I did not said I did not agree, I said it's not a problem, it's politics, politics is full contact, politics is in your face, it's the nature of the business, it is not a cause for alarm, not everybody is made for it but once you have decided that you are a politician so to speak and you're in the business of politics, well then it's not warm and fuzzy, it's not warm and fuzzy 99% of the time, it's the nature of the business even the PUP have their own internal wrangling, you're going to hear about that soon too because that is what political organizations go through."
We also asked Peyrfitte about the culture that one convention after the other has wrought among the party's delegates, and whether it's likely to have bred a list that's rife with corruption but the Chairman for his part told us that his delegates are as innocent as the ones in the PUP.
