And while the Leader of the Opposition is confident in a clean sweep across all municipalities, his predecessor is more of a realist. Barrow pointed out that Patrick Faber and Tracy Panton's appearances at today's procession proved that the UDP was united once again. But Faber told us that it's not all Kumbaya. He also added that while he's hoping for victory in Belize City, he wasn't so confident at first.
Patrick Faber, Area Rep., Collet
"We have our difficulties, certainly between Tracey and I, there has never been any kind of rift, we've always worked well together, so that's not true. But at the end of the day, we're all UDPs, and that's what we have always maintained."
"I did not want to ever leave my party, and so when the election is sounded, I'm here, and we are going to do our best to bring victory for our party on March 6th. I think it has been a really wonderful exercise on the part of the UDP."
"Of course, there are many new candidates, and for them in those areas, and I visited many of them over the last couple of weeks, it is a testing of their machinery, it is putting in place that machinery if it didn't exist, and I feel that win or lose for the party overall, the UDP will leave on March 6th with a victory, and that victory can well be translated into a further victory whenever the general elections are called, because we would have had a stronger machinery as a result of going through these elections on March 6th."
Reporter
"So you're confident in all nine municipalities as your party leader?"
Patrick Faber, Area Rep., Collet
"Well, I feel that we'll give them a good run in most of them. I'm not sure I'm all the way there, but I feel at least the ones that I have visited, and that is those that are down south and in the west, and certainly here in Belize City, where I may have had my doubts in the beginning, I'm now beginning to have a wonderful feeling about here in Belize City."
"Certainly the nomination in the parade just now was a tremendous boost. I feel that that's a wonderful crowd that came out, and we see representation from all over the city."
