Still, if you ask Peyrefitte, the resolutions carried that the conventions will begin - leading up to a national convention in October. We asked Panton whether she would put her name in, and if she would encourage her supporters to apply for their respective constituencies.
Tracy Panton, Leader of the Opposition
"How can we countenance? How can we legitimize a process that is completely illegitimate by now saying because you ran under a Tracy ticket and because I didn't like you and I put hand picked and swore in unilaterally another candidate completely violating the constitutional processes of the party that now the bona fide caretakers must be subject to a convention."
"If we are going to be fair and absolutely fair, then if it is that we're deciding now that caretaker conventions should occur, then they must happen for all 26 constituencies that do not have elected area representatives."
"The five constituencies that sit in the house would not be subject to a caretaker convention. How is it? And I mean no disrespect to Mr. Jose Espat-Uk who got less votes than the number of spoiled ballots in the Albert constituency."
"How can he sit in an NPC meeting and make decisions that affects the greater good of the party and reflects the will of the people? It makes no sense. It absolutely makes no sense. I want to make the point, at least we be misunderstood. Eight or seven times. During the, before the court hearing, during the court hearing, after the court hearing, we made an appeal to Jamal Barrow for us to sit down and mediate the situation. At every juncture, Jamal Barrow said no."
"We are prepared to sit at the table as equal partners to make a determination how this party will move forward united and how we are going to rebuild so that we can be what the people want us to be, a robust opposition. Failing that we cannot, we cannot, simply cannot legitimize a process that is completely illegitimate."
We'll have more from the press conference later in this newscast.
