Former United Bermuda Party deputy chairman David Sullivan is to run as an Independent candidate in the Devonshire South Central by-election because he says the party system is “broken and in dire need of repair”.Mr Sullivan has declared his candidacy by saying he's had enough of political parties working for themselves rather than the constituents they represent.He said both the Progressive Labour Party and One Bermuda Alliance were trying to force voters to settle for candidates being “parachuted in” without any connections to the constituency.Mr Sullivan said constituents should not be “victims of a political party system gone amok”.Mr Sullivan is likely to stir things up in the November 1 by-election by going head-to-head with One Bermuda Alliance leader Craig Cannonier and PLP candidate and former Accountant General Anthony Richardson. It is believed he could take votes from Senator Cannonier in what was a safe UBP seat.Long-time MP and former interim OBA leader John Barritt officially resigned from his seat last month so Sen Cannonier, the new OBA leader, can stand in his place. Sen Cannonier is required to hold a seat in the House of Assembly.Mr Sullivan was yesterday on a radio talk show for about 90 minutes discussing how the local political scene was “going off the rails”He told the Sherri J show on Magic 102.7FM: “I'm not sure the current start of party politics is something we should be bragging about.“There's been a significant failure in both political party structures. Whose interests are they representing?“They are representing themselves for the continuation of parties but failing to represent the most important people in their constituencies; the voters.“They should be representing the constituents who put them there”.Mr Sullivan said current party politics “were not going down well” and he said it was “offensive” to democracy that people were being told what to do “for the sake of the party”.He said the PLP and OBA were acting “without the voice of the voters” and accused both parties of “not discussing things with constituents.”Mr Sullivan, who has been involved in politics since 1981, said constituents deserved better and the system was “in dire need of reform”.He said: “Constituents in Devonshire South Central take extra pride in the qualified people they send to the House of Assembly to represent them.“We have two current political parties who don't care what Devonshire South Central want.“They are just saying let me just throw a candidate in there and see how he flies. That's no way to represent people”.He added: “Constituents are tired of things… they no longer want to play the game”.Mr Sullivan said being an independent candidate was his only option as he was not a member of the PLP or the OBA.He joked that the OBA would “love me to go away” but said he was ready to rise to the challenge.Mr Sullivan said: “An independent candidate is a target for both political parties to beat up on and I can take that”.Mr Sullivan said he had consulted constituents and had been “encouraged to provide a real choice”.He said: “The blatant disregard by both the ruling party and the newly formed political party to assume that they could send any candidate from outside the constituency and the voters would just settle for it was a gross miscalculation.”Mr Sullivan has recently sent a letter to constituents saying the way in which constituents of Devonshire South Central had been treated since the election had “given many of us pause to reflect on just what is going on.”He wrote: “We, by a very wide, margin sent a representative to parliament who resigned from the party he ran for and became an interim leader of a party we know very little about, all without much explanation”.Mr Sullivan said the ongoing PLP primary process showed “disarray” as less than 100 branch members were selecting election candidates. He said a chosen few were making decisions rather than “the rank and file electorate”.Mr Sullivan also highlighted that 16,000 people voted for the Opposition in the 2007 election, but “those elected opposition members have been through no less than three different parties. Two in the last six months”.Mr Sullivan questioned how the UBP and BDA, “who were vehemently split from each other”, could come together “around the campfire singing kumbiyah.”Mr Sullivan said the five-month-old OBA was a “new, fledging party” and he did not know what they stood for.He said: “What's the OBA? Who are they? What do they stand for? What are their policies? I have absolutely no idea what they are all about.”Mr Sullivan said he had “been to the funeral of the UBP some months ago”, adding that the party was “dead and gone”.As a former UBP member, he does however question why he hasn't received “a single piece of information” about what had happened to the party's assets.Mr Sullivan also said he respected UBP leader Kim Swan and MP Charlie Swan for being “hard-working constituency MPs” and “doing in their minds what they think is the right thing”.He went on to say Kim Swan had “put his heart and soul” into the UBP and politicians turning their backs on him was “one of the darkest chapters in the history of the UBP”.Many callers to yesterday's radio show supported Mr Sullivan by saying he was “right on top of what's going on in politics” and “this country needs a man with a conscience”.Mr Sullivan refused to say whether he was going to run in the by-election on the radio yesterday morning, but officially declared his candidacy with a press release sent to the media at about 3pm.Parliamentary Registrar Randy Scott yesterday confirmed there were now 1,035 voters registered in Devonshire South Central, compared to 1,071 registered voters in the 2007 general election.The final line-up of candidates standing for Devonshire South Central will not be known until after nomination day on October 12.