{"id":17643,"date":"2012-02-06T10:04:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T15:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=17643"},"modified":"2012-02-06T10:05:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T15:05:42","slug":"fnm-to-choose-new-deputy-at-summer-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/02\/fnm-to-choose-new-deputy-at-summer-convention","title":{"rendered":"FNM To Choose New Deputy At Summer Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16354\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16354\" title=\"pm-hubert-ingraham\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pm-hubert-ingraham1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pm-hubert-ingraham1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pm-hubert-ingraham1-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said the Free National Movement (FNM) does not need a deputy leader to successfully contest the next general election, adding that Bahamians vote for a party\u2019s leader.<\/p>\n<p>Ingraham reminded that it is not constitutionally mandated for the FNM to have a deputy leader as it heads into the next election nor does a deputy leader have to be an elected member of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a constitutional position; so it\u2019s not an issue,\u201d said Ingraham when asked if the party had eyed a possible successor to current deputy leader Brent Symonette.<\/p>\n<p>Ingraham said Thursday night he did not think the absence of a replacement for Symonette will cost the party votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople of The Bahamas will elect a government, a party and a person who is going to lead that governing party. Everybody else is a member of the team. The people of The Bahamas know I am the leader of the FNM and we have 37 other candidates,\u201d he adde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not constitutionally mandated for the governing administration to have a deputy leader so there is no rush to name a replacement for Brent Symonette. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,168],"class_list":["post-17643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-fnm","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}