UDP Boycotts House Meeting, Cites PM Disrespect

And that same defiance carried into the political arena, where the UDP also defended its decision to boycott Friday’s House Sitting, insisting they won’t sit in Parliament while, as they put it, the Briceño administration “takes them for fools”.

 

Gabriel Zetina, UDP Senator

“The decision that the UDP Parliamentarian caucus took to boycott the recent Sitting of the House of Representatives was made to protest the BTL and Smart acquisition. I want to reassure the Belizean that no one was coerced.”

 

Tracy Panton, Leader, United Democratic Party

“There has been no regret that the UDP via its Parliamentarians will not allow the government to use the national Assembly and to use the House of Representatives as a rubber stamp for corruption. And the opportunity is not lost. This matter in my view requires oversight by Parliament and the fact that the Prime Minister who knew nothing of this deal, he did not know that BTL was talking tohis family company. But he now knows that he is directing, the prime minister of this country has inserted himself to direct a pause on a deal he knew nothing about. The UDP Parliamentarians will not be treated like “kunumunu”