Editing Said Musa (section)

===Post-leadership===

On the day of the 2008 election, Musa stated it would be his last election as PUP leader.<ref name=Day/><ref name=Post>{{cite web |first=Adele |last=Ramos |url=http://www.amandala.com.bz/index.php?id=6617 |title=Said Musa's post-mortem of general elections 2008 |work=Amandala Online |date=12 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208005535/http://www.amandala.com.bz/index.php?id=6617 |archive-date=8 February 2012 }}</ref> After the PUP's defeat, he congratulated Barrow. He considered the opposition's focus on allegations of corruption and negativity from the media to be primary factors in the defeat.<ref name=Post/>

On 13 February 2008, Musa announced that he was stepping down as party leader<ref name=Day/><ref name=Steps>{{cite web |url=http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-6050--27-27--.html |title=Former Belize prime minister steps down as party leader |work=Caribbean Net News |date=14 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423055140/http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-6050--27-27--.html |archive-date=23 April 2008 }}</ref> so that the PUP could "renew itself from the top."<ref name=Steps/> The PUP held a convention on 30 March 2008 to select his successor, and [[Johnny Briceño]] was elected as PUP leader against [[Francis Fonseca]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amandala.com.bz/index.php?id=6783 |title=Johnny stuns Francis in 'Pan! |work=Amandala Online |date=1 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522035527/http://www.amandala.com.bz/index.php?id=6783 |archive-date=22 May 2011 }}</ref>

A leadership election was held in October 2011 again where, [[Francis Fonseca]] defeated Briceno. Briceño was replaced by [[Francis Fonseca]] in October 2011. [[2012 Belizean general and local elections|Five months later]] the Fonseca-led PUP suffered a narrow defeat to the UDP, winning 14 of 31 seats in the [[House of Representatives (Belize)|Belize House of Representatives]]. Musa was comfortably re-elected in his Fort George constituency and remains the senior member and shadow [[Senior Minister of Belize|Senior Minister]] of the PUP caucus and in the [[Shadow Cabinet]] which was formed first in 2012 and then again in 2015. The current [[Shadow Cabinet]] of [[Francis Fonseca]] will be dissolved before the [[Next Belizean general election]] which is scheduled for 13 February 2020.