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- 22 December, 2024
Elections
CounterPunchTT News on Elections
VENEZUELA’S GONZALEZ GOT 67 PER CENT OF VOTE
VENEZUELA’S corrupt incumbent President Nicolas Maduro polled only 30 per cent of the votes in the recent election.
VENES IN T&T CAN’T VOTE IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
MOST Venezuelan exiles in the Caribbean and elsewhere will be unable to vote in this weekend’s presidential election.
MICKELA CRANKS UP
MICKELA Panday is mobilising political support through cottage meetings.
Ms. Panday, who heads Patriotic Front, has held several meetings, including one in the Toco-Sangre Grande constituency that was reportedly well received.
PNM SAFE SEAT FOR OBIKA
DEFECTOR politician Taharqa Obika is likely to be selected as the PNM’s candidate for either La Brea or Point Fortin.
Obika, who was in the official party of Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley that visited Ghana, is strongly favoured to contest a PNM safe seat.
FARIS AL RAWI VS. KAZIM HOSEIN
SAN Fernando West Member of Parliament Faris Al Rawi has become busy among constituents amid reports that ministerial colleague Kazim Hosein may replace him as the general election candidate.
POLITICAL ‘ANALYSTS’ AND ELECTION OBSERVERS
The seven-member mission was led by – hear this – Trinidad and Tobago’s Chief Elections Officer Fern Narcis-Scope.
A year earlier, there were non-partisan election observers in the Bahamas, and eight months prior, monitors oversaw the poll in St. Lucia.
UNC MUST MAKE PEACE
TRINIDAD and Tobago simply cannot survive another five-year People’s National Movement (PNM) term of office.
SANDO WEST SHOWDOWN
IS the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) attempting to put the marginal San Fernando West constituency out of the reach of the United National Congress (UNC)?
BADREE TO FIGHT MORUGA FOR PNM
CRICKETER-turn-broadcast commentator Samuel Badree is heavily favoured to contest the Moruga-Tableland constituency for the People’s National Movement in the upcoming general election.
ROWLEY MOVES TO WEAKEN CUMMINGS
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley is moving to strengthen his authority within the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM).
In doing so, Rowley is aiming to weaken the influence of General Secretary Foster Cummings, who is also a future aspirant for leadership of the party.