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PRESS STATEMENT For Immediate Release: March 11, 2024<\/p>

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Contact: 725-0000 Hon. Jamale Pringle responds to Media Queries<\/p>\n

Subsequent to calls from several media in relation to an online report in which MP Richard Lewis was endorsed by nine members of the United Progressive Party\u2019s recent election slate, I wish to put on record the following:<\/p>

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I had no advice to that effect from the group, nor any individual within the group, regarding their decision; and the publication of these letters came as a surprise to me, as it did to most Party Members and supporters.<\/p>

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I had no prior discussion with the members of the group prior to the writing of these letters or their publication.<\/p>\n

My understanding was that all campaigning for the position of Political Leader was to remain internal \u2013 within the Party \u2013 as directed by the Convention Planning Committee and endorsed by the Party\u2019s Central Executive on which all Parliamentarians sit.<\/p>

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My singular concern is the health of the Party and the attendant confidence of its Members and Supporters in my actions.<\/p>\n

As I demonstrated in 2009 and again in 2014, the good of the United Progressive Party comes ahead of my personal feelings and ambitions and will continue to do so.<\/p>

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I will also continue \u2013 as I began in 2018 \u2013 to defend the Party, and the People who have put their trust in the UPP, against the ploys of the Antigua Labour Party, and I encourage our loyal supporters to do the same.<\/p>

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Long live the United Progressive Party!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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