Dennison Responds to Growing Calls for Candidacy

Senator Glenfield Dennison is earning a reputation for speaking plainly, and some Belizeans now want him to take that voice from the Senate to the ballot box. Prime Minister John Briceño recently challenged Dennison to first experience the grassroots work of politics, including visiting homes across the country, before speaking about connecting with voters. So, has the union senator seriously considered entering electoral politics? We put that question directly to him.

 

Glenfield Dennison, Union Senator

“I don’t wish to put my name on a ballot. I don’t think the government wishes for me to put my name on a ballot either. On that Paul I am going to say, be careful what you wish for. Be very careful what you wish for because me and my AI have already ran the numbers and I can tell you which divisions are up for grab. I can tell you that Eluide really wants to be the mayor and he is beatable. It is not that the PUP is unbeatable. It is a coalescence of the people’s frustration with the corruption of the UDP and their inability to have pulled it together before the last election and that seems to continue. But it is not that the PUP is unbeatable and there are particular seats, especially where I grew up, like the one with the pliers, beatable. Polling area seventy-three Micho Chebat, beatable. Alex Balona beatable. There is another one I forgot, but there are several candidates that are beatable. Just any strong candidate like me would beat them. But I don’t wish to put my name on a ballot because the election itself, the election system itself, I fundamentally believe, is rigged in favor of the two-party system in Belize.”

 

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