{"id":324456,"date":"2024-06-17T11:28:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T15:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=324456"},"modified":"2024-06-17T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T15:28:06","slug":"getting-rid-of-this-administration-should-unite-all-opposition-parties-says-dr-fontaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/governance\/getting-rid-of-this-administration-should-unite-all-opposition-parties-says-dr-fontaine\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Getting rid of&#8217; this administration should unite all opposition parties, says Dr. Fontaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_324457\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-324457\" style=\"width: 922px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324457\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Dr.-Thomson-Fontaine-file-photo-e1718637943846.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"1233\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-324457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Thomson Fontaine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Political Leader of the United Workers Party (UWP) Dr. Thomson Fontaine says he hopes that the newly formed political party, The United Progressive Party (UPP) will join forces with the parties in opposition to the\u00a0 Dominica Labour Party (DLP) administration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His comments came during an exclusive interview with Dominica News Online (DNO) recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are in a democracy, so it is important that anybody who feels that they want to be a part of this political space they should feel free to do so,\u201d Dr. Fontaine said. \u201cHaving said that, we are in a fight to unseat a government [that] has been there for over 25 years and a government that everybody now in Dominica is saying should go, so I think that now is time, not for the parties to be disjointed in opposition, but the parties to come together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He continued, \u201cMy hope is that this new party will join with us and the other opposition [parties] to ensure that we get this fundamental task of getting rid of this administration. That\u2019s what it has to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former\u00a0Deputy Leader of the (UWP) Attorney Joshua Francis together with Parliamentary Representative for the Marigot Constituency Anthony Charles have\u00a0recently\u00a0confirmed their membership of the\u00a0UPP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The formation of the UPP which was first announced in January this year, has sparked interest among Dominicans at home and abroad. Francis, acting as a spokesperson for the party, stated that a date for the party\u2019s delegates conference, where a leader will be elected, will be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The party\u2019s symbol is the \u201cbottle,\u201d and its official color is orange. Its motto is \u201cUnited for Progress\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a previous announcement, the UPP announced plans to hold its first press conference on June 10, 2024. However, it was postponed to a later date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dominica\u2019s political spectrum currently includes the reigning Dominica Labour Party (DLP) established in 1955, the second oldest Dominica Freedom Party (DFP) founded in 1968, followed by the United Workers Party (UWP) in 1988. Additionally, the Alternative Peoples\u2019 Party (APP) and Team Unity Dominica (TUD) were established in 2019\u00a0and 2022, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Political Leader of the United Workers Party (UWP) Dr. Thomson Fontaine says he hopes that the newly formed political party, The United Progressive Party (UPP) will join forces with the parties in opposition to the\u00a0 Dominica Labour Party (DLP) administration&#8230;.","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":324457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[286,235,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-governance","category-homepage-carousel","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Getting rid of&#039; 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