And while Peyrefitte says he doesn't want to hold unto the Chairman's post forever - forever might be how long voters have to wait before constituencies are proportionally redistricted.
With elections only a year away, will the task force re-drawing the electoral map be able to successfully carry out the exercise and complete it before the generals? Is there any political will to do so? UDP Chairman and Senator Peyrefitte says that it is likely that these changes will not happen before the next election.
Mike Peyreffite, UDP Chairman
"I think we are at a standstill. I think for the most part many people in the government do not want any changes before the next general election. So the people who brought the matter, if they want to see it to fruition, they have to make sure that they alert the court as to what's going on so that the court can move on it. But I have seen nothing to indicate that anything will be laid before Parliament in order for there to be new constituency districts so to speak for the next general election. So from what I see, everything will be to see him going into the 2025 general elections. There's been no indication or at least no official indication that that would be any different."
"Well the government's proposal that they had to put forward was one thing we have put forward our own proposal that we think should be fair. But they have not responded to that they are not moved on, that we have already put in our input to the elections on boundaries commission as to what we think would be a fair redistricting exercise to ensure that as close as possible to what the law says, you have an equal amount of voters per constituency, or at least there's a balance. There's a balance so to speak, So we have made those proposals a long time ago."
