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At the launch of her party\u2019s newest candidate in St John\u2019s Rural East (Vincent \u201cVere\u201d Cornelius), Joanne Massiah was on her proverbial \u2018back foot\u2019 in defense of her choice of candidates and their presumably lackluster resume as she declared, \u201crunning a government is an extension of running a home; running a business; running a community, but on a magnified scale.\u201d<\/p>

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The average age of the Democratic National Alliance\u2019s (DNA) candidates released to date is 39 years. This has led many in the public to question the experience level of candidates put forward thus far by the Joanne Massiah-led party.<\/p>\n

The DNA leader went on the offensive as she questioned the poor decisions and subsequently underwhelming results by those in authority with so-called \u2018experience\u2019 under their belts.<\/p>

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\u201cThis so-called experience which these presently-serving ministers are touting, where has that led us as a country?\u201d Massiah questioned.<\/p>

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\u201cThe so-called experience has us in all of the difficulties that we\u2019re experiencing,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n

Only one of the candidates to date has any experience in contesting general elections (Kelton Dalso, 2014). And, none of the candidates presented thus far have ever been elected to public office.<\/p>

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Massiah, non-deterred, continued to lay into the those advancing the notion that experienced politicians were preferable to her movement of \u2018young, fresh and dynamic\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe so-called experience has turned many a two-lane road in this country into a one-lane road because the streets in the communities are overgrown with bushes. And if you can\u2019t clean the bushes in the community how then can you advance the material, the spiritual and the educational aspirations of the people of Antigua and Barbuda?\u201d<\/p>

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She went on to challenge those in attendance at the Clare Hall Secondary School by asking, \u201care you prepared to stay with the same failed people on the same failed path with the same failed experience?\u201d<\/p>

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\u201cWhat you need most of all is common sense,\u201d the DNA leader asserted.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things we checked our candidates for is common sense. I am happy that you come qualified, but if you\u2019re missing common sense, you can\u2019t be apart of the DNA.\u201d<\/p>\n

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