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United Democratic Party Nominations Committee closes door on Patrick Faber nomination for Collet in favour of Ian Jones

Posted: Friday, October 28, 2022. 10:04 am CST.

By Aaron Humes: The United Democratic Party’s internal nomination committee has firmly shut the door, it appears, on a Patrick Faber nomination for Collet, essentially saying “too little, too late.”

The committee had previously written to candidate Ian Jones saying he would be endorsed as standard bearer, only a day before Faber announced on his Facebook page that he had taken down all offending posts against his party – though some have noted that there are still some on there.

But in any event, as Jones explained to Channel 5 News in an interview on Thursday night, Faber had his chances, and had he acted sooner, Jones would have been willing to withdraw his application because he had agreed with the National Party Council that incumbent area representatives would not be contested if they chose to run again. (Only one incumbent, Queen’s Square’s Denise Barrow, has not applied to run and two candidates will square off for that nomination).

There were efforts from party vice-chairman Alberto August to intercede on Faber’s behalf, asking for Faber to be declared the candidate, having complied with the NPC directive, but in response the committee wrote, “we appreciate your effort to finally comply with the directive of the NPC…regrettably several weeks have passed since the denial of your application…consequently the committee has already concluded the vetting process…including Ian Jones who has been approved for an endorsement convention in the Collet Constituency.”

While Faber was right-hand to former area representative Faith Babb and took over from her in 2003 after defeating Remijio Montejo, Jones says he has been living in the division since 1989 and is aware of its needs.

But it remains to be seen whether Faber’s storied political career is truly over. He has not publicly commented.

 

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