THERE IS another political flare-up in the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) as its president, Dr Peter Phillips, has yielded to a demand by a Peter Bunting faction to discuss the party’s future.
We are, therefore, asking that before Monday of next week, you meet with the parliamentary group to discuss matters relating to the future of our party,” the May 28 missive to Phillips said, a copy of which The Gleaner has obtained.
A day later, in response, Phillips blamed the lack of a meeting on the COVID-19 pandemic which is affecting the island.
The PNP president said that he would ask General Secretary Julian Robinson to make contact with Bunting in light of the impending easing of the COVID-19 restrictions to arrange for a meeting of the parliamentary group.
Bunting, along with several other PNP members of parliament, had insisted that Phillips could not lead the party to victory against Jamaica Labour Party leader Andrew Holness.
