The con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) in Diego Mar­tin North East has re­signed, cit­ing pres­sure to sup­port Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) leader Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der and con­cerns over the di­rec­tion of the par­ty’s lead­er­ship.

“It is ut­ter­ly un­ac­cept­able that we are now be­ing pres­sured to sup­port Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der and his PEP par­ty un­der the threat of be­ing side­lined or black­list­ed with­in the UNC,” the ex­ec­u­tive wrote in its res­ig­na­tion let­ter which be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing this morn­ing.

“This bla­tant act of po­lit­i­cal co­er­cion is a be­tray­al of the hard­work­ing, ded­i­cat­ed mem­bers who have stood by the UNC through thick and thin. Even more dis­turb­ing is the hypocrisy of vil­i­fy­ing life­long UNC mem­bers while em­brac­ing an in­di­vid­ual who has spent years vi­cious­ly at­tack­ing both the par­ty and its mem­ber­ship.”