Suruj: We’ll fight local govt polls as a partnership

The People’s Partnership Government is entering the upcoming local government elections as a united body and will work assiduously to capture control of the Port-of-Spain, Point Fortin and San Juan/Laventille Regional Corporations. So said interim chairman of the UNC Khadijah Ameen and the party’s deputy political leader Dr Suruj Rambachan after Thursday night’s national executive at Rienzi Complex, Couva.

Rambachan said an arrangement is being finalised with the Congress of the People (COP) over the selection of candidates. Ameen said even though the PNM has already started screening candidates, the People’s Partnership would be ready for elections. “We have a strong membership which has been mobilised…We had new executives installed in constituencies throughout Trinidad,” Ameen said.

Rambachan said: “We are going to go into the election as a partnership and the COP and the UNC will in fact work out our mutual interests and benefits in terms of the division of the seats and how we are going to contest. “There is absolutely nothing else that will happen except that we will fight like we did in 2010 as a partnership,” he said.

“We intend to retain all the seats we have at this point in time. Both as the UNC and the COP have decided that we are actively going after the Port-of-Spain City Corporation, Point Fortin and San Juan/Laventille Regional Corporations where we have representatives.”

Guardian