Tracy Panton Fires Back as UDP Rift Deepens

The battle inside the U.D.P. is far from over and Tracy Panton is making that crystal clear. She and her parliamentary colleagues are standing firm, insisting their expulsion from the party was never valid. Why? Because, according to them, they’ve got a High Court ruling on their side. Panton spoke bluntly today, claiming that Saturday’s National Party Council meeting was more about optics than unity, a staged effort to make it look like the party is coming back together. But if unity was truly the goal, she argues, why weren’t they even invited to the table?

 

Tracy Taegar-Panton, Leader of the Opposition

“The decision to expel was unconstitutional, it was illegal, it was unlawful, void and of no effect. I don’t know why there would have been a need for an NPC, to make a determination that we are not members of the UDP. The judge made it clear the first time and he made it crystal clear the second time. That process in my view was not necessary, but certainly used to bolster certain narrative that they are making a genuine overture to those of us who stand firmly for our democracy.”

 

Paul Lopez

“Just for clarity sake, would it have been an acceptable, if Mr. Faber was not was not excluded from it?”

 

Tracy-Taegar-Panton

“What I hear you asking, you are working from the premise that this was a genuine effort. My response is that this was not a genuine effort. Were it a genuine effort we would have been at that meeting. If the meeting was genuinely to bridge the gap, the divide, to hold hands and say it is not going to be perfect, but lets find a way to move forward together. There would be no reason to exclude a former party, the lead  senator in the senate and the care taker for collet.”