Nine weeks before the territorial elections*, Daniel Gibbs has still not declared himself a candidate for his own succession. If very often the outgoing presidents are slow to express themselves, as far as the president of the COM of Saint-Martin is concerned, another parameter must be considered, that of his trial. Next Monday and Tuesday he will indeed be judged in the context of public procurement cases; acts for which he risks being rendered ineligible.
To the question, “Are you waiting for the judgment to decide on your candidacy? “, Daniel Gibbs replied: “my priority today is to complete my mandate and to continue to focus on what I am committed to. During a meeting with the media at the beginning of the week, the leader of the majority however poured out.
"I'm not going to repeat my mistakes," he said. Casting mistakes in 2017? Daniel Gibbs did not wish to specify. “I prefer [errors] to keep them to myself,” he said while recalling that he attached importance to “fidelity”. In other words, he does not appreciate that six of his team members have recently left.
By choosing his running mate five years ago, the leader of the Union for Democracy (UD) considers himself "to have trusted his intuitions, his personal convictions". “I make choices based on my certainties,” he says. And to add: "I was too often nice and it turned against me."
If he did not confirm his candidacy, Daniel Gibbs did not invalidate it either. “I'm going to take the time to reflect… And as my grandfather used to say, only fools don't change their minds. »
* The first round will take place on March 20 and the second on March 27. (soualigapost.com)
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