B.P.M. Attorneys to Write Elections and Boundaries Commission

Robert “Bobby” Lopez

According to Robert Lopez, the consent order preserves their right to return to the High Court for further adjudication as deemed necessary. He says their attorneys are drafting a letter that will be issued to the Elections and Boundaries Commission early next week in hopes that the commission agrees to rectify the concerns they raise. 

Robert “Bobby” Lopez, Member, Belize Peace Movement

“I believe, well the first thing we are doing is we are, after we meet several times in the weekend, then I believe on Monday a letter from our attorney would be sent to the election and boundaries chairman detailing why we feel this is not acceptable. The attorneys will guide us as to when we go back to court, if we go back to court, or if the elections and boundaries respond and say well you know we are going to go back and fix this problem. Certainly the thirty-five percent deviation for one constituency already makes all the other thirty constituencies feel hurt, feel different. You are making an exception for the largest fastest growing constituency. It says in the report that Belize Rural South which is Ambergris Caye and Caye Caulker grew by a hundred and forty-two percent. It is the fastest growing constituency and we can see why. And then you want to take Caye Caulker that polling area and bring it to Fort George. No man, it could have been split in two and create a Belize Rural South and North East and that is where two representatives would have been representing Caye Caulker and apportion of San Pedro and then another representative for the Northern Side of it. It has over nine thousand three hundred voters and some of the   constituencies in Belize are at the forty-six, forty-seven. So those would have been merely equal to what is set up in Belize City. The mean average right now I believe is six thousand, one hundred and seven or ten.”