{"id":51080,"date":"2011-12-19T16:03:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T20:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=51080"},"modified":"2011-12-19T19:14:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T23:14:53","slug":"pm-frowns-on-idea-of-james-as-political-leader-of-uwp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/pm-frowns-on-idea-of-james-as-political-leader-of-uwp\/","title":{"rendered":"PM frowns on idea of James as political leader of UWP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51081\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51081\" title=\"skerrit and james\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/skerrit-and-james-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/skerrit-and-james-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/skerrit-and-james-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/skerrit-and-james.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skerrit (left), James<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSomething must be fundamentally wrong\u201d were the words of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit in describing a decision by the Constituency Associations of the United Workers Party (UWP) to selected James as their nominee for the party\u2019s delegates conference carded for the 8th of January 2012 at La Plaine.<\/p>\n<p>The Saturday decision has paved the way for James to become political leader of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Skerrit told the Kairi FM&#8217;s Heng Program on Monday that if after three terms in opposition, the UWP is forced to return to the very leader that earned their defeat and whom the party acknowledged on countless occasions was long past his best by date, then something is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will look on with interest to see the marketing job that the UWP will attempt to make about a man who they said two elections ago was not relevant to the times. If 10 and 15 years ago you were expired, how you can be good for eating three years later?\u201d the prime minister questioned.<\/p>\n<p>James\u2019 nomination by the Constituency Associations must first be presented to the Management Committee of the party which will then send its report to the UWP delegates\u2019 conference.<\/p>\n<p>Also, even if James was the sole nominee of the party\u2019s constituency associations, the party\u2019s rules allow for other nominations to be made at the delegates\u2019 conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSomething must be fundamentally wrong\u201d were the words of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit in describing a decision by the Constituency Associations of the United Workers Party (UWP) to selected James as their nominee for the party\u2019s delegates conference carded for&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":51081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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