Can we have a new alternative government please, because it is curtains and lights on this once halfway decent organization known as the FNM.

No doubt the "establishment" is pulling and tugging to have its way, as are the old "standards" and back benchers who refuse to acknowledge their obsolescence or think it is "their time".
Both will hand the election to the current bunch of crooks if half of what is apparently going on is true.

Minnis certainly is not ready - and the FNM chose him. So what does that say about the FNM? If the FNM knew this about him, then why did its delegates vote for him by such a large margin? I see persons who say Minnis bribed delegates, and they say that so as to suggest that this makes him illegitimate. Actually what it makes the FNM is corrupt, because if he was able to pay hundreds of people to vote for him, then that means that there is zero difference between that grouping and the PLP.

The FNM is doing everything in its power to ensure the PLP wins again, and for this they are worthy of the highest and deepest disdain.

Yeap...if they do this convention, with no vote...or still push Minnis...they don't get my vote...and trust me, I don't want the PLP either...AT ALL. But a Minnis lead FNM will not get my vote. I guess it will either be green or no vote at all, which is sad as I have voted in every general election I was old enough to participate in.

I hear you BID, but voting green or staying home is as good as a vote for the PLP. I'm no Minnis fan either, but I definitely can't cope with another 5 years of the PLP.

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The FNM's chairman has got to be one of the more moronic individuals to have held that office in his party. There is no such thing as a convention without voting. That is not a political party convention, that is a rally. Has their chairman ever read his party's constitution or does he even understand what the purpose of a convention is for political parties? You have got to be a special kind of imbecile to be able to make oneself look more inept than the PLP insofar as party politics is concerned, though in truth, the PLP actually handles its politics quite well - it is governance that they are a bloody disaster at. These antics by the FNM are among the reasons that voter apathy is so high and voter registration at this stage, is so low. These parties are obsessed with self and the people and nation could rot in hell for all they care.

**FNM CENTRAL COUNCIL DOES NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO "MODIFY" PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION!**

Mr. Pintard's assertion that should the FNM Central Council choose to have a non-voting event, the convention would only be held to share the party’s vision, outline elements of its plan of action, share different dimensions of its platform and/or modify the constitution of the party among other things,**IS UTTER NONSENSE!!!!!**

**THE COUNCIL CANNOT DECIDE TO NOT HAVE AN ELECTION OF OFFICERS AT CONVENTION**!

The fact is, **THE FNM COUNCIL IS NOT EMPOWERED TO MODIFY PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION** which unequivocally states at Article 51 (e) that the convention shall have an "ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF THE PARTY".

The constitution can only be modified / amended by the Convention. (See Article 21 which states: **"Central Council SHALL carry out the directives issued by the CONVENTION)**

This is no more than a feeble attempt to further mislead Pintard and Minnis' blind followers some of whom have never seen a copy of the party's constitution much less read one.

These ill advised tactics will only serve to further divide an already weakened party. The FNM must now move with alacrity to mend fences, regain the confidence of the Bahamian people and on to rescuing the nation from the death grip of this woefully inept PLP administration.

Well if that is truly the case and they cannot bypass the vote, I'm willing to bet now that the convention does NOT happen before the general election.

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I agree with both Publius and I am Citizen . You can call what Pintard proposes a retreat , meeting , a convocation , a rally in the alley but it won't be a convention as that term is understood anecdotally in the political world or in the FNM Constitution . This is just another corrupt maneuver by that chicken shit Minnis and his spineless sycophants like Pintard . Now all FNMs can see why Minnis trying to pack the Council with his stooges , so that he can subvert the democratic will of the people. Don't be surprised if the true keepers of the flame resort to the Courts to protect their beloved Party.

Donald Trump did not worry about the party's infighting and their not wanting him to run. As of now he's ahead of his closest opponent by at least 15% in most polls. Unfortunately many of the things (loose lips and rudness) and the people (Sarah Palin) that caused him to be the forerunner in the Republican party, may cause him to lose in the presidential elections.

Comrades could a small grouping political pundits truly be seeing the hands UBP painting reds canvas of the future?
Could it be that “The Rights Honourable Progressive Liberal Party” are preparing sprungs early General Election?
Smart pundits in the knows - don’t think the PLP will face-off against Minnis but against the red party’s de facto UBP leader?
Is money boys fed up enough call in their bank note loans, not willing wait party’s sudden flight Delaware file for Chapter 11 Protection?

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Why does it have to be said “Those that have been courageous enough to identify themselves in calling for a convention... "? My point is, why does it have to be COURAGEOUS???

Right

Time for Brent to step up and take over. LBT for deputy and Minnis for Health.

An FNM party without this greasy face chairman and cry baby Minnis is the FNM party that the people really want. I just can't understand why these younger politicians would take on the same old bad habits of their older associates: Greedy for power and stabbing anyone who stands in the way. What could Minnis and this sly fox be afraid of by not having a voting convention? Surely they are not that afraid of the big bad wolf, Loretta Butler!!! Say it ain't so!

Emac and readers, it is not a matter of being afraid of 'the big bad wolf', which I must state: Mrs. Loretta Butler Turner is not a 'big bad wolf', it is a matter of these men displaying that they are afraid of a DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.

If you are afraid of this underpinning principle of the FNM's Constitution, what else you would wish to thwart for your own selfish interest? What would then be your response to this underpinning in Our Constitution, that is, The Constitution of The Bahamas if things don't appear to be aligning with your personal agenda?

I am appall and hereby express publicly my embarrassment of the behavior so far of Dr. Hubert Minnis; and much less, Mr. Pintard of whom I do not hold a moral expectation of him to know, or, expect of him to do any better.

Godson 'Nicodemus' Johnson

Emac and readers, it is not a matter of being afraid of 'the big bad wolf', which I must state: Mrs. Loretta Butler Turner is not a 'big bad wolf', it is a matter of these men displaying that they are afraid of a DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.
If you are afraid of this underpinning principle of the FNM's Constitution, what else you would wish to thwart for your own selfish interest? What would then be your response to this underpinning in Our Constitution, that is, The Constitution of The Bahamas if things don't appear to be aligning with your personal agenda?

I am appalled and hereby express publicly my embarrassment of the behavior, so far, of Dr. Hubert Minnis; and much less, Mr. Pintard of whom I do not hold a moral expectation of him to know, or, expect of him to do any better.

Godson 'Nicodemus' Johnson

Have a convention. Vote on the leadership and be done with it. Whoever emerges victorious should then be given the whole-hearted support of ALL members and indeed the country. If Minnis is afraid of a leadership challenge then he is not suitable to lead the Party.

...and, irrespective of ones' choice (mines or yours)... you and I would then have to go on and work along with the outcome. What is so difficult to understand about that???????

Exactly!

This Minnis led FNM party is not giving me ANY hope for the future. I am not registering to vote until a proper "voting" convention is held.

Please go ahead and register... You should always reserve your right to action. What you do when that moment arrives is a matter then for you and your conscience.

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