While the dust may have settled on the 2025 general elections, one group isn’t ready to move on just yet. Jeremy Enriquez and his associates are gearing up for a legal battle, claiming the election was unconstitutional. Why? Because Belize still hasn’t completed a long-overdue redistricting exercise. Enriquez argues that without it, the vote violated the country’s supreme law. Today, we caught up with him for an update on his push to take the matter to court, and why he believes this fight is far from over.
Jeremy Enriquez, Claimant
“The electoral divisions are severely imbalanced as much as over sixty percent For example, in the case of the Stann Creek West, there is the electoral division is far more, at least, almost five times more than the smallest one in Belize City. Secondly, nine of the electoral divisions in Belize City fall way below average. And there are other electoral divisions like in the Belmopan and in Belize Rural North. All those areas are way above the mean. The constitution of the lease mandates that electoral divisions are to be equal or near as equal as possible with considerations with geographic distribution and all of that. What we have is a persistent imbalance that both political parties have refused to address. This government had promised in their last term of office that they would have rectified this situation, and they didn’t. And so that is why we had this court case during the court case. This government came into office, breaking the supreme law of the country, another unconstitutional election that they imposed on the people of Belize, even after they had promised. I want that noted down in the history of this country, that repeatedly both political parties have broken the Constitution to the silence of many civil society organizations, the Bar Association. That’s one. Secondly. All of this effort comes at a cost. So I appeal to the Belizean public in any way they could support us and meet this cost. The government has its resources using the people’s money to fight the people. So we, from the grassroots level, are appealing for every support we can get in order to see this truth. So that. We do not, again, go into another election ever with a government that continues to violate the Constitution and continue to get away with it.”
