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Written by CTV3 Publisher Wednesday, 08 February 2012 03:05

Politics

In Orange Walk South, P.U.P Standard Bearer Jose Abelardo Mai has been working overtime ensuring that he meets with all voters of the constituency. During his house to house campaign Mai has been listening to the concerns of residents of the area who for the past three years and a half have been neglected by Mark Pech. Under Pech’s term the South saw no progress and today residents are questioning where he was when onion producers lost hundreds of thousands of dollars and one of the country’s major rice producers closed down for business. Well, we have that answer for you. Pech was nowhere to be found, in fact, our records show that not once did he speak out in support of the onion producers or much less the rice producers of Blue Creek. This is the second time that Mai is running for the seat of Orange Walk South but according to him this time the wind is blowing in favor of the P.U.P.

Jose Abelardo Mai- P.U.P Orange Walk South Standard Bearer

“We suspected that the Prime Minister would call the election early so we when ahead preparing our machinery from village to village, we have seven polling stations, we more than ten villages, so w have to prepare in each village what we call the campaign machinery, so every single village right now has a campaign machinery in place with a very, very viable and a very, very dedicated leader and we have more than one leader in the village and we have people assigned to do the various activities for that day, so we are prepared we have always say to be prepared and we are prepared.”  

Mai, as we all know, is going up against Rosendo Chendo Urbina Sr. considered to be a man with big bucks. But Mai says that despite the financial differences change will come on March 7^th.

Jose Abelardo Mai- P.U.P Orange Walk South Standard Bearer

“El pasado nos indica de que el dinero es importante,  es un factor importante pero no es el factor determinante de resultados en una elección, quien no tenía más dinero que el PUP en el 2008, la gente nos engaño y saben porque, la gente en su mente pensaba que le partido PUP no andaba bien y agarro nuestro dinero y voto en contra nosotros, no hubo aldea que no tuvo un mother’s day program, o un christmas program en 2008 antes, y eso es lo que va a suceder ahora hay personas que me están diciendo Mr. Mai, yo voy aponer mi camisa sabes, pero no espere que yo voy a votar UD, si me están dando cien dólar lo voy a garrar y voy a votar PUP.  So there will be a lot of surprises, y hay gente PUP que yo se la última vez que decidieron hacer un cambio para el UDP, esa gente ha vuelto.  Tenemos un plan que se llama la agenda 2012, en ese plan se especifica cuál es la meta, el objetivo, te dice cual son los pilares que se forma el plan y uno de los pilares es la transformación del sector agrícola en un sector dinámico, competitivo, rentable, y en eso es lo que estamos trabajando bastante.  Hay otro tema importante de que la política en el país en relación a inversionistas tiene que cambiar, nosotros solo podemos atraer inversionistas si la política está allá y creamos un ambiente de desarrollo y sino nosotros no podemos restablecer esa confianza nos va hace difícil conseguir personas interesados.”

For Mai developing the Agricultural Sector in the South will be one of his main priorities. 

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