<div id="attachment_106623" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width:310px;"><a rel="nofollow" class="highslide" target="_blank" href="http://edition.channel5belize.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/jpg1"><imgclass="size-medium wp-image-106623" title="Joseph Mahmud" src="http://edition.channel5belize.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/jpg1-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Joseph Mahmud</p></div>
<p><span style="font-size:13px;">At news time tonight senior P.U.P. officials are in closed door session following the announcement of the resignation of Cayo North Area Representative Joseph Mahmud from the House of Representative. Yes, we know he resigned from the Party in late October – but this time he’s taken the big step of resigning from the National Assembly – effective today. For those in the political know…that means a bye-election no sooner than twenty-one days or later than ninety days from today. We couldn’t get an official comment from anybody in the P.U.P, but we are told that that will come on Tuesday. The announcement, via National Assembly release this afternoon, came as a surprise to the P.U.P. executive. The release says that Mahmud’s resignation was delivered at eleven this morning to the clerk of the House of Representatives, Eddie Webster. Although Speaker of the House, Michael Peyrefitte is away in France, he was immediately contacted and he accepted the resignation, triggering a bye-election. Now, the U.D.P. has already elected a standard bearer for the area and on the Opposition side, there are two aspirants who announced very recently; they being attorney Michel Chebat and businessman, Richard Harrison. This is a developing story which we will continue to follow.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:13px;">At news time tonight senior P.U.P. officials are in closed door session following the announcement of the resignation of Cayo North Area Representative Joseph Mahmud from the House of Representative. Yes, we know he resigned from the Party in late October – but this time he’s taken the big step of resigning from the National Assembly – effective today. For those in the political know…that means a bye-election no sooner than twenty-one days or later than ninety days from today. We couldn’t get an official comment from anybody in the P.U.P, but we are told that that will come on Tuesday. The announcement, via National Assembly release this afternoon, came as a surprise to the P.U.P. executive. The release says that Mahmud’s resignation was delivered at eleven this morning to the clerk of the House of Representatives, Eddie Webster. Although Speaker of the House, Michael Peyrefitte is away in France, he was immediately contacted and he accepted the resignation, triggering a bye-election. Now, the U.D.P. has already elected a standard bearer for the area and on the Opposition side, there are two aspirants who announced very recently; they being attorney Michel Chebat and businessman, Richard Harrison. This is a developing story which we will continue to follow.</span></p>
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