Matt Simms, Gleaner Writer
WHILE MUCH of the attention is drawn to the race to determine who will replace Prime Minister P.J. Patterson as president of the People's National Party and Prime Minister, the delegates in his East Westmoreland constituency will once again determine who will replace him when they meet on Thursday.
This comes five months after the death of Dr. Norman Buchanan, who was chosen by acclamation in August to represent the constituency. The dentist died in September after a heart attack.
His brother and councillor for the Leamington division, 37-year-old business-man Luther Buchanan, is hoping to fill the post on Thursday during a special conference at the Maud McLeod High School. Indications are, however, that it will not be as easy for him as it was for his late brother.
He will have to convince most of the nearly 700 delegates who are eligible to vote that he is more suited than attorney-at-law Leonard Green who is expected to mount a challenge for the post.
Buchanan claims to have the greater support and that he was just "rising to the occasion" in response to the many requests of the constituents.
Green was unsuccessful in his bid to represent the North East St. Andrew constituency in the last general elections when he was defeated by the Jamaica Labour Party's Delroy Chuck.
