Barrow: Corrupt regime must go
For the U.D.P.’s Dean Barrow, Said Musa and his colleagues do not deserve a second chance.
Dean Barrow, Party Leader, U.D.P.
“Given all that has happened over the last four and a half years, there really is a need for a change and that the United Democratic Party does possess the determination and the ability to bring good governance back to this country.”
“I really think the issue of corruption is going to be the determining factor in this election. I believe that scandals of the last couple of weeks together with the sense of the overwhelming majority of the people that life has not really improved for them during the last four and a half years will do the trick. In other words, it’s a two-pronged message that, really, the nation is sick to death of official corruption and that compounding official corruption–and perhaps because of official corruption–there’s the fact that people’s lives have not measurably improved.”
“We think that people are tired of promises being pitched at an unrealistic, at an obviously unachievable level. And so we have tried to make our manifesto concrete, but doable at the same time. We think that it all has to do with credibility. And since we are pushing the issue of our credibility versus the P.U.P.’s lack of credibility so very much, it fits into the pattern for us to say to people, here’s a manifesto that you can truly have faith in because it doesn’t promise the impossible.”
While the two campaigns have been no less nasty than in years past, we can take some comfort in the fact that for the first time in modern political history the issue of Guatemala has not been even a minor point of controversy in the campaign.
