The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune. 

Whilst some may think that the crowds at the rallies held in support of the leader of the Opposition and the intended leaders, Dr Duane Sands and Mrs Loretta Butler Turner, only relate to FNM affairs, the hierarchy and Think Tank, if such exists, of the PLP must be deeply concerned.

The fact that the candidates for leadership have drawn such large crowds should be worrisome for the ruling government because many of the persons attending those rallies would not be seen in 2013 or 2014 at an FNM rally of any kind. This could be a harbinger for the PLP that the very people who voted for them are now coming forward publicly to return to the FNM in order to defeat the very party that they voted for in 2012.

What might be saving face for the PLP is if its leader, the Prime Minister, resign his position, the electorate could very well restore confidence in the PLP to return it to power in 2017. It is axiomatic that voters were completely dissatisfied with the way the FNM governed the country and they resoundingly voted them out in 2012. It was not Mr Christie that the electorate voted for but merely the PLP.

Mr Christie just happened to be the leader of the party at the time whose subsequent style of ruling basically regurgitated and rehearsed the party’s style of governance of mistakes which led to its defeat in 2007.

Although the FNM is still very much unpopular and disliked, particularly with the constant bickering in the party, the electorate takes no mercy polling day to revenge the party that has duped them and not lived up to its promises, even partially, and could easily vote for the FNM. 

However, there might be an incredible return to power of the PLP if Mr Christie resigns his position as Prime Minister with different men and women assigned ministerial positions. The resignation, by Mr Christie, in some measure, would restore trust in the electorate in the PLP as an institution. By the modus operandi of the FNM, it is clear that it is not a party or institution but simply a “movement” which reacts, reacts and reacts without any substantive plans for governing this country.

Should the leadership remain, and no changes made NOW in the PLP before the general elections, the FNM will win landslide on the basis of spite by the people of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.

E V ALBURY            

Nassau,

July 13, 2016.