Yesterday you heard Patrick Faber's rant on the state of the UDP and its leadership. He also declared that if the UDP didn't want him, he would run in Collet independently.
Well, according to Shyne Barrow, the UDP doesn't want him. He says Faber's out, and that's the end of that. He also replied to Faber's statements on John Saldivar, saying that he isn't getting a free ride, and it is within his right to trigger an NPC meeting.
Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition
"He's out, I don't know who tells you otherwise, he's no longer the candidate for Collet and so I have no concern nor consideration for anything that he has to say and the reason he's out as candidate is for this type of behavior which is a distraction to what we have to do which is, we are the oversight body of the government and it is important that every opportunity we get, we focus on what may be going wrong with the government and what could be going better. These distractions are not conducive to being the constitutional government in waiting. I will clarify though that when you talk about legalities and constitutional operations, constitutional undertakings as far as the party is concerned, there is, anyone can trigger an NPC, they just have to have
the requisite amount. So it is not a matter of allowing an NPC, the decision of the special committee was final but if you read our constitution, our constitution does allow even when a member is expelled for that member to appeal to the NPC and if there's not a regularly scheduled NPC then the procedure would be for the aggrieved individual to trigger an NPC by getting the requisite number of signatures of the 1/4 members of the NPC and that is what Mr Saldivar did, so nobody gave him an automatic appeal, nobody gave him an automatic hearing with the NPC, if he did not trigger the 1/4 requisite signatures, he would have had to wait until the next regularly scheduled NPC and anyone can bring up anything at an NPC to appeal."
