{"id":8939,"date":"2017-11-06T14:10:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T18:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=8939"},"modified":"2017-11-06T14:10:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T18:10:32","slug":"hurst-too-many-unknowns-on-upp-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/hurst-too-many-unknowns-on-upp-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurst: Too many unknowns on UPP ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The government\u2019s Chief of Staff Lionel \u201cMax\u201d Hurst is of the opinion that the slate of candidates unveiled by the United Progressive Party (UPP) on Sunday will cause the party more harm than good.<\/span><\/p>

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Hurst said people tend to vote for candidates with whom they are familiar.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said of the UPP\u2019s 16 candidates, four are known in the political arena and the other 12 are virtually unknown to the large majority of Antiguans and Barbudans, except for Dr Cortwright Marshall, who has run on the ACLM (African Caribbean Liberation Movement) ticket before.<\/span><\/p>

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Hurst also opined that the newly formed political party , the Democratic National Alliance of Joanne Massiah, will take votes away from the UPP, giving the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) an even greater advantage at the polls.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cBut by and large the others are newcomers and I think that that spells disaster for the United Progressive Party, plus it has to fight against the new political party that has been launched by Joanne Massiah, which means that she will be taking a lot of their votes away and therefore putting the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party in a better position than it would have normally been, so we will see how it works out, but I think this is as a result of the failure of Mr (Harold) Lovell\u2019s leadership,\u201d Hurst said on radio this morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Hurst, Lovell should have found a way to work things out with Joanne Massiah following the fallout after the UPP leadership race. <\/span><\/p>

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Hurst said it\u2019s not a matter of taking chances when you are offering people to run the biggest business in Antigua and Barbuda, the government.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe government is the biggest business and you don\u2019t fool around with that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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He said also that the candidates put forward yesterday don\u2019t have the moral standings of those put forward by the Labour Party in 2014, adding that they also have no experience in government.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cMost people want to know what record one brings and it is the record which will determine in large part how you go forward, and some of them don\u2019t have much shiny records,\u201d Hurst noted.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The government\u2019s Chief of Staff Lionel \u201cMax\u201d Hurst is of the opinion that the slate of candidates unveiled by the United Progressive Party (UPP) on Sunday will cause the party more harm than good. Hurst said people tend to vote for candidates with whom they are familiar. He said of the UPP\u2019s 16 candidates, four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nHurst: Too many unknowns on UPP ticket - 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\/hurst-too-many-unknowns-on-upp-ticket\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hurst: Too many unknowns on UPP ticket\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The government\u2019s Chief of Staff Lionel \u201cMax\u201d Hurst is of the opinion that the slate of candidates unveiled by the United Progressive Party (UPP) on Sunday will cause the party more harm than good. 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