Barrow Says U.D.P. Won’t Win All Municipal Seats

Dean Barrow

According to Barrow, the electorate is more concerned about “bread and butter” issues going into the next municipals and how the present administration has been able to meaningfully address those concerns.

Dean Barrow, Former Party Leader, U.D.P.

“Those are the issues that, in my view, that will play in the municipal campaign and given that there is, as far as I can determine, this increasing disgruntlement, with the People‘s United Party, at the municipal level they are likely to pay a price.  I don‘t know how steep that price will be but I think they are likely to pay a price and so I see the UDP making up a fair deal of ground and that‘s putting it conservatively when you look at where they are now and the fact that at the time of the last municipal elections they won maybe two seats out of the entirety of the sixty odd or however many seats there are.  I feel that it is far more likely than not that they will make up a good deal of ground.  Their chances, in my view, are very favorable, not necessarily to win it all, of course not, but to come off looking good which will then increase their momentum for the general elections and feed into, I think, a developing perception that whether the public particularly likes the UDP or not, they dislike, and this is on an increasing upward scale, the current government.”