“Sears not shaken by support for Christie” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) candidate for Fort Charlotte Alfred Sears said he is unshaken by the support Prime Minister Perry Christie has headed into the party’s leadership race at the November convention.

Over the past week, a chorus of PLP parliamentarians threw its support behind Christie to remain as leader of the party with some suggesting Sears is fighting a losing battle.

‘Well the persons who are qualified to vote are the delegates and the stalwart councilors, and I’ve been canvassing the stalwart councilors and party officers and I am more than encouraged by the response I’m getting, “ Sears told The Nassau Guardian Friday before boarding a flight to  Abaco  where he planned on meeting with more delegates.”

While Sear appears to be optimistic about his chances at the Progressive Liberal Party’s November convention, I am quite sure that he is aware that the present leader of the PLP has been adding Stalwart Councilors to the ranks at an alarming rate and that the Stalwarts always outnumbered he delegates in the party; so maybe, just maybe other party members are correct that this is an exercise in futility and I am sure that at one point even Bradley Roberts, Chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party, once expressed the very same sentiment but today he [Bradley Roberts] claims he feels this is the best time for anyone to challenge for leadership of the party, does this include former PLP Chairman Raynard Ribgy?

“Bradley Roberts: Now is the time to challenge Christie: – The Nassau Guardian (September 15, 2016)

Excerpt from this article; “Although he is undecided whether he will seek the chairmanship position at the party’s November convention, Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman indicated yesterday that now is the time for leadership aspirators in the PLP, including Deputy Prime Minister Philip Brave Davis, to challenge Prime Minister Perry Christie.

‘Anytime is an option for anyone when the seats are declared, the offices are declared vacant,” Roberts told The Nassau Guardian.

‘We are a democratic organization.  Whenever there is an opportunity, it is their right to do so.”

“We are a democratic organization”, this seems to be the present theme of the Progressive Liberal Party November convention; so not to many people have taken Mr. Sears seriously, seeing his ‘challenge’ as a farce; a show to prove that democracy actually exists within the PLP, it does not.

 It is also amazing that the chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party would even utter such words after the party that he chairs has not held a national convention since 2009. 

Doesn’t Mr. Roberts realize that they have violated their very own constitution by not holding a convention in over seven years? 

Doesn’t Mr. Roberts realize that he and others within the organization of the Progressive Liberal Party have aided in Perry Christie holding on to the leadership position through the violation of their constitution and supported and condoned these action and even encouraged them?

Doesn’t Mr. Roberts realize that they have violated the rights of the qualified people in that party to democratically choose who they want in the leadership of the party but then of course the current leader has claimed that he has been encouraged to remain as leader, even by some of the younger members of the party; whatever happened to the bridge to the future?

While the chairman now seeks to brand the party and its inner workings as being ‘democratic’ in nature; we have seen firsthand that this is not the case, as it has been shown time and time again in the Progressive Liberal Party’s governance of the country in the past four plus years, I ask why should we further trust a political organization to run the affairs of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas for another five years, when they seem to only use democracy at their discretion?

The Progressive Liberal Party fails for one reason, it is their nature.

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