He has no plan to run for delegate, said the governor, adding in jest that he will support whoever is claiming that he will be a candidate.
“I am not running,” he added.
Asked who will be the candidate of the local Republican Party which he re-joined recently, Fitial said the person who can tell is its chairman, former Gov. Juan N. Babauta.
Fitial said he cannot discuss next year’s delegate election “because…I know I am not running.”
Variety learned last week that some of Fitial’s supporters, especially those with the Carolinian community and former Covenant Party members who followed the governor in joining the GOP, want him to run for delegate.
A Carolinian community leader, who declined to be identified, said it is now the right time for Fitial to be the CNMI’s representative in the nation’s capital.
The Covenant Party, according to some its members, will have a complete slate in the midterm elections next year but is having difficulties looking for a delegate candidate.
A few weeks ago, Congressman Sablan announced his re-election bid in a fundraising dinner attended by former officials and current members of the Republican, Covenant andDemocratic parties.
