A motion of "No-Confidence" has been placed against the female Political Leader of the Grenada United Labour Party (GULP), Gloria Payne-Banfield.

Informed sources told GRENADA TODAY that the motion was brought by one of the two Deputy Political Leaders of the party, barrister-at-law, Reynold Benjamin.

According to a well-placed source, the issue came up before an executive meeting of the party with only one person reportedly coming to the defense of the leader, long-standing member, Jerry Romain.

He said the move by Benjamin was apparently influenced by the apparent lack of leadership given to the GULP by Payne-Banfield since the party's dismal Moves to unseat Payne-Banfield showing in the last elections in 2003.

He spoke of the GULP boss not holding a single political event of note since the election and not engaging in anything of note to bolster the party in the eyes of the people. The GULP failed to win a seat for the second consecutive election with only one candidate, former Opposition Leader Michael Baptiste who ran in the rural St. Andrew South-west constituency managing to get back his financial deposit.

The source said that Benjamin and his backers in the GULP are bent on having new elections at the party level around September when a convention is expected to be held in order to have a new executive in place. Prior to this, the GULP is planning to stage a General Council meeting within the next month.

Payne-Banfield was installed as Interim Political Leader about four years ago following a protracted power struggle for control of the party by warring factions including Benjamin and Baptiste. A court-brokered deal cleared the way for Payne-Banfield, a former Cabinet Secretary under ex-party leader and founder, late Prime Minister Sir Eric Matthew Gairy to assume the leadership.

The source said that despite the "Motion of No-confidence" the GULP female political leader intends to remain in her post and to continue playing a leadership role. He stated that Benjamin and his supporters on the executive would more than likely "ignore her as the political leader".

"The decent thing for her to do is to step down and allow the party to appoint someone as Interim Political Leader until the convention is held and a new Political Leader is duly elected", he remarked.

The GULP is the oldest political organisation in the country, being formed in 1950 by Sir Eric.