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Written by CTV3 Publisher Thursday, 09 February 2012 04:36

Politics

On Thursday February 2^nd, P.U.P Orange Walk Central Standard Bearer John Briceno accompanied by his attorneys Dickie Bradley and Anthony Sylvester appeared before the Orange Walk Magistrates Court to object to 109 names that are on the provisional voters list. According to Attorney Dickie Bradley there is enough evidence to prove that if not all, majority of the people were registered under a fraudulent address. For context here is clip of what Bradley told us on the day the case went before the courts.

Dickie Bradley- Attorney At Law

“There is evidence that a lot of these people if not all of these people have been put in to addresses where the people who live there don’t even know them, in one case the address is a warehouse, is a warehouse when we went and look there is not even a cat or a mattress nobody lives there or say sleep there or work they, the owners say excuse me I don’t know them people, we need to get off the voters list.  Anthony has been doing a research on this matter on the constitution of Belize says that for you to have the right to vote you must be a citizen of this country and you must fall under the requirement of the representation of the peoples act, the citizenship is already suspect, why is it suspect? It is highly suspect and we will go so far as to say that in both our view and in the view of other attorneys that we have spoken to, the person whom have been rushed into citizenship in this country, all over this country have not obtain their citizenship in accordance to the constitution, which is the highest law, why we say that, the constitution says, to be a citizen of this blessed nation of ours you must live here, you must reside here for five years continuously, that’s the word in the highest law in the land, continuously mean when I take my lee dory and I tied it to a piece of mangrove it is one rope that go from the boat to the mangrove, that is what continuous mean, you live here for five years, the law in which they put those people to become citizen say you reside here ordinarily, ordinarily is not continuously so those citizenship can be struck down in violation of the constitution.

The case however, was adjourned to February 8^th since the Registering Officer Soledad Alonso was able to prove until late in the afternoon that the list was in fact published but after the case had started. But while the P.U.P expected the case to start today they were informed that it had been adjourned for the 28^th of February. CTV3 News understands that the Elections and Boundaries Department submitted a letter to the Magistrates Court requesting for the case to be adjourned since Registering Officer Soledad Alonso would be unable to attend due to a death in her family.

As mentioned before most of the names being objected to are said to be that of new Belizeans who recently required there naturalization during the UDP’s mass naturalization campaign. Of note is that in a period of two weeks, from the 6^th to the 20^th of January, a whopping 1000 voter’s registered to vote in the Orange Walk. And from December 10^th to the 19^th 5000 plus new voters made it in the electoral list for the upcoming elections.

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