Coalition Talks Are A Well-Organised Plot—Fahie

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(PLTM) - ”Coalitions don’t work,” and talks of a coalition government is a “well-organised plot”. This is the view of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) that was told to supporters last night, January 18.

With five political parties—the VIP, the National Democratic Party (NDP), Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM), Progressives United (PU), and Reform Action Alliance (RAA)—in the election race, there have been speculations that the next administration will be a coalition—a government formed by multiple political parties.

In order to form the government, a party would need to have majority of the seats in the House of Assembly (HoA), in the BVI’s case, seven. If no party manages to amass a majority, the next option would be a coalition government.

However, during a ‘meet and greet’ event in Lower Estate last night, Chairman of the VIP, Hon. Andrew Fahie told the handful of persons gathered, “There will be no coalition. Wherever there was a coalition government, it failed, the last one now being Guyana.”

He was referencing the recent event where a member of a faction of Guyana’s coalition government voted in favour of the Opposition’s no confidence motion, paving the way for a collapse of the government and early elections in that country.

“Wherever you see there was coalition, it failed, because when you take different persons of different philosophies and try to put them together to run a country, it doesn’t work,” he stated.

He pointed out that his party is the only one with a full slate, and, “When you have the same philosophies and principles, it is easier to work together.”

Hon. Fahie declared, “We’re not going to allow anybody to tell us about any coalition.”

Pointing to the possibility of a coalition government of the PVIM and NDP, Hon. Fahie said, “…Before you know it, you vote back the same team you were trying to get out. It is a plot, a well-organised political plot. I’m telling you to wake up and notice it so you won’t fall prey to it.”

The conversation was started last night by the party’s District Four candidate, Luce Hodge-Smith, who also reiterated that coalitions don’t work because of a divide in ideologies, urging supporters not to split their vote, but to vote for all candidates on the VIP slate.

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Speaking to BVI Platinum News on the sidelines of the event, she stressed, “Coalition governments, it is said throughout the history don’t work because you have different ideologies, different ways in which to get things done, so when you have for example, the current government right now has done so poorly, they want to come back.”

“We need a full slate because of the current position that we are in right now, the things we are seeing, the negative position the country is in right now,” she said, as she called on voters to elect all 13 VIP candidates.

“We’re advocating, but we can’t convince all, but if we could convince the majority,” she said, adding, “Barbados did it, and they’re doing fine…and then we saw in Guyana…”

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