Skelton: Reunited NDP could win 7 to 9 seats in next election
Opposition legislator Ronnie Skelton has suggested that a reunified National Democratic Party (NDP) could potentially secure as many as nine seats in the next general election.
Skelton based this projection on the combined number of votes received by the NDP and his Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM) in the 2023 general election.
“After the last general election, we started talking to each other, and we said, ‘this doesn’t make any sense.’ Based on the numbers, if we join them (PVIM and NDP), the possibility is there for us to form the government. We stand a better chance of winning seven seats or even eight to nine seats,” Skelton said during the NDP radio show.
The veteran legislator also noted that both parties recognized they risked remaining in the Opposition unless they united.
“The numbers clearly state that if we continue along that path… the possibility is there that we will sit in the Opposition,” he added.
The idea of reunifying the NDP and PVIM has gained traction among some members of the electorate, who see the merger as a way to form a stronger opposition bloc against the more consolidated Virgin Islands Party (VIP) government.
However, public support appears increasingly divided. A portion of voters has shifted attention to the newly formed Opposition Alliance, led by Sixth District Representative Myron Walwyn.
Some observers regard Walwyn as a more formidable alternative to lead the territory through its current political and economic challenges while others have signalled a preference for a leader with stronger ancestral ties who can trace their Virgin Islands ancestry back three or more generations.
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What is Skeletor and Smurf basing their assertion on? What is the NDP trying to achieve? In order to be successful it can’t only be to destroy Myron. Can they articulate that without Don Bishop directing them? Other than how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootssie Pop, the world wants to know.
If they had that revelation why didnt they …ACT ON IT ..instead of waiting years later??
You won the 2023 general election and lost it because you all didn’t realize that you had to come together to form the government, and two years after Ronnie and Marlon realized they have to come together? You just can’t make this comedy up.
What a bunch of entitled gentlemen. The three young men that form an alliance recognize that way ahead of you two .
IMPOSSIBLE!
Smurf N Turf outta dem minds!
As a very good businessman I think that Ronnie is making a lot of sense but is not in the realms of reality. After another four years people will be looking for fresh political blood and not these old hound dawgs that are infighting amongst each other.
Thats a simplistic way of looking at it. However, don’t discount the variables of which there are several.
For him to make such a statement based on the last election, this just tells me how his thinking is way off. Many variables have changed since the last election. He is much older and the voting public will be much younger, that is something for him to think about
He for sure will not be in the 7 or 9 seats. Ronnie suffers from a very serious case of ENTITLEMENT. what has Ronnie done since he was elected two years ago? The answer is nothing ! Yet he expects to be re-elected.
I would choose Myron over Ronnie and Marlon any day.
Ronnie seems to have this entitlement to being Premier of the BVi. But if you look at the election results the country does not share that view of him. He barely made it in during the last election. For someone who has been around the political scene for so long there is no way that newcomers like Mather and even Lorna should have beaten him. Sharie beat him twice in a row. Previously he would always come behind Dr. Smith and Myron when the NDP won. Ronnie needs to hang it up. He will be about 74 at the next election. Give others a chance. I for one will not be voting for him.
Mr. Skelton your too old to be talking like this you cannot bring donkey to horse race. If your thinking about running again a beg u change your mind.
Yet him and Marlon did nothing for 7 years. It’s time to get out of the way Skelton and Marlon. You both have failed!