{"id":21522,"date":"2012-05-09T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=21522"},"modified":"2012-05-09T10:20:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T14:20:54","slug":"seatless-mccartney-not-stepping-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/05\/seatless-mccartney-not-stepping-down","title":{"rendered":"Seatless McCartney Not Stepping Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21523\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21523\" title=\"branville-mccartney-dna\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/branville-mccartney-dna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/branville-mccartney-dna.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/branville-mccartney-dna-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Branville McCartney, DNA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Branville McCartney vowed to continue to lead the Democratic National Alliance (DNA) despite a crushing defeat at the polls and the loss of his seat in Bamboo Town.<\/p>\n<p>McCartney lost by 917 votes.<\/p>\n<p>His statement was an abrupt turn from a public pronouncement he made last month on the Guardian Radio show \u201cDarold Miller Live\u201d when he said he would step down as leader of the year-old party if he could not retain his seat in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>McCartney lost his seat to Renward Wells of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) by a huge margin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was some vicious political rumor going around about me quitting if I was not successful, that was a vicious rumor, which is not true,\u201d he told The Nassau Guardian last night during an interview from his home in western New Providence.<\/p>\n<p>Although many of the party\u2019s respective candidates siphoned away hundreds of votes from the two major parties in several constituencies, not one of them managed to capture a seat in the House of Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, McCartney resigned from Cabinet and the FNM amid reported power struggles with the outgoing prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIngraham has done good for the country,\u201d McCartney said. \u201cWe cannot take that away from him. It comes at a time when everyone\u2019s career [in] politics comes to an end and I wish him well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Branville McCartney now says he will continue to lead the DNA despite his public pronouncement that he would step down if he lost his seat &#8211; which he did, and  by a huge margin.<\/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":[182,168],"class_list":["post-21522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-dna","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21522","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=21522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}