And while Panton tries to reclaim the headquarters, she surely has bipartisan support from the Women's Parliamentary Caucus.
One of the government's senior ministers, Dolores Balderamos Garcia applauded Panton for becoming the first woman to lead the opposition. Garcia shared her views on both Panton and Senator Sheena Pitts on their new official roles in leadership.
Dolores Balderamos Garcia, Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister
"It has to be good, it has to be good, yes, we congratulate honorable Tracy. I think this is a good moment for her. Of course we will pepper her in the House of Representatives. We are not going to sit back and not promote the good activities of the government and the good actions we have done. However I want to say that we must have broad shoulders in order to take criticism so I welcome the fact that in the major opposition party there are women at the helm in terms of honorable Tracy and Chairlady Sheena Pitts. Sheena is an attorney at law, we always treat each other with the greatest of respect. I think Sheena's sister, Tricia Pitts Anderson is a senior magistrate and I am speaking now as a woman and as a member of the women's parliamentary caucus of the National Assembly, I absolutely welcome it. When we go into the women's parliamentary caucus we leave our party politics at the door and we advocate for women. And I can tell you that honorable Tricia who is a senator and Honorable Tracy who is the leader of the opposition they give big input, we in the PUP we give our big input and then of course we have our presiding officers in the persons of the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, so we are very pleased."
Panton is expected to have a press conference later this week.
