‘People are asking me to run for office’- Edmund G. Maduro
Mr Maduro, who is also a businessman and former Chief Immigration Officer, turns 79 years of age this year 2018.
He ran 3 times before and was never successful, coming in close to the bottom each time. Mr Maduro, who has not been on air since the powerful hurricanes Irma and Maria of September 2017, last contested the 2015 snap elections as an Independent At Large candidate and gained a mere 85 votes, coming in second to last, beating out Ishmael E. Brathwaite who got 65 votes. There were 16 At Large Candidates in the 2015 elections.
The top vote getters in the 2015 election were Minister for Education and Culture, Hon Myron V. Walwyn (AL) with 5777 votes and Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith (AL) with 5753, both of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).
Maduro never a winner
Mr Maduro also contested the 2011 general elections as an Independent At Large candidate and he came in 14th place out of 16 At Large candidates.
When asked if any of the two main political parties have approached him to run with them, he said “No.”
The retired civil servant said “if enough people ask me to run I will” and he does not mind being an independent candidate in the next general elections, as he believes “politics is of God.”
Mr Maduro declined to give details on the number of people who have allegedly approached him to seek political office for the fourth time. He also did not elaborate on what he considered “enough people” for him to make a decision to run or not to run again for public office.
Politicians in his family, but no Edmund
If the Virgin Islands’ next elections is called in 2019 when it's constitutionally due, the Virgin Islander, Mr Maduro, the brother of Conrad A. Maduro, a former elected official, Minister and founder of the now defunct United Party, will be 80 years of age.
The current Sixth District Representative, Hon Alvera Maduro-Caines, is also his niece.
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50 Responses to “‘People are asking me to run for office’- Edmund G. Maduro”
Why do expats always want benefits without showing the loyalty?
I am now back in the VI....I'd have settled down and invested here quite some time ago if this country was run the way Cayman is. I'm not sure what I will do, even though I'm glad to be back.
The Cayman approach may have its pros. It may have its cons. But it is a reality. Quite a difference in terms of results.
Many persons have asked you to run.......
Money run tings and you don't have it.
Now dah mek sense!
People can't be that stupid to encourage a c**zy @#$ to run for office and we already being disrespected from the ones we have in there already that needs to go!! HELL NO, not you Maduro!!!
not to mingle with the tax payers money; see how the political business in this place have suddenly become joke business: the fellow ran for office in the past and got 1 vote and he did not vote for himself.....go and help rebuild that supermarket !!!!!