{"id":179383,"date":"2023-07-11T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=179383"},"modified":"2023-07-11T08:05:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:05:09","slug":"lovell-says-pm-browne-is-afraid-to-name-by-election-date-because-results-will-be-referendum-on-him-and-his-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/lovell-says-pm-browne-is-afraid-to-name-by-election-date-because-results-will-be-referendum-on-him-and-his-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovell says PM Browne is afraid to name by-election date because results will be referendum on him and his party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"antig-848660493\" class=\"antig-ecab antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img 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https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>REAL NEWS: Harold Lovell, former political leader of the United Progressive\u2028Party (UPP), is calling on Prime Minister Gaston Browne to name the\u2028date for the St. Mary\u2019s South by-election and stop wasting time.<\/p><div id=\"antig-125288565\" class=\"antig-content_5 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"ABLP_Red-&#038;-Reddy_Web_1000x250\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Speaking at the Party\u2019s rally in Bolans on Thursday night, July 6,\u2028Lovell said that,\u00a0based on information the UPP has received,\u00a0the\u2028Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission\u00a0 (ABEC) is ready to\u2028stage that poll.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, he says, there is nothing holding the prime minister back\u2028from announcing a date.<\/p><div id=\"antig-3883482980\" 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https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div><div id=\"antig-3354877569\" class=\"antig-content_12 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"ABLP_Red-&#038;-Reddy_Web_1000x250\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>About 30 days have passed since former MP Kelvin \u201cShugy\u201d Simon\u2028tendered his resignation from the House of Representatives on June 7.<\/p><div id=\"antig-284651836\" class=\"antig-content antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ReggaeInTheParkAntigua\" aria-label=\"lucanio\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lucanio.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lucanio.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:240\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lucanio.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:819\/h:1024\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lucanio.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lucanio.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And, according to the Constitution of Antigua and Barbuda, a by-\u2028election must be held within 120 days.\u2028Accordingly, Lovell says, the clock began to run from June 8.<\/p>\n<p>Lovell believes that PM Browne is afraid to call the by-election\u2028because the results will be a referendum on him, his party, and his\u2028administration.<\/p><div id=\"antig-77144203\" class=\"antig-content_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a 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Speaking at the Party\u2019s rally in Bolans on Thursday night, July 6,\u2028Lovell said that,\u00a0based on information the UPP has received,\u00a0the\u2028Antigua and Barbuda Electoral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lovell says PM Browne is afraid to name by-election date because results will be referendum on him and his party - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/lovell-says-pm-browne-is-afraid-to-name-by-election-date-because-results-will-be-referendum-on-him-and-his-party\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lovell says PM Browne is afraid to name by-election date because results will be referendum on him and his party\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"REAL NEWS: Harold Lovell, former political leader of the United Progressive\u2028Party (UPP), is calling on Prime Minister Gaston Browne to name the\u2028date for the St. Mary\u2019s South by-election and stop wasting time. 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