Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has la­belled the PNM's me­dia brief­ing yes­ter­day as "noth­ing short of far­ci­cal."

Fol­low­ing the PNM Gen­er­al Coun­cil meet­ing on Sat­ur­day, Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young and Min­is­ter of Youth De­vel­op­ment and Na­tion­al Ser­vice, Fos­ter Cum­mings, con­firmed that Young had the sup­port of all 21 Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment to suc­ceed Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley.

Re­act­ing to the de­vel­op­ment, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the con­fer­ence was "a vul­gar and ob­scene cha­rade aimed at hood­wink­ing a des­per­ate, trau­ma­tized na­tion in­to be­liev­ing that uni­ty was achieved among the lazy, greedy, in­com­pe­tent war­ring mem­bers of the Row­ley Gov­ern­ment, even as they re­mained en­gaged in their cloak-and-dag­ger pol­i­tics."

She added that this was just part of the "PNM’s on­go­ing, chaot­ic soap opera of a lead­er­ship bat­tle."

The Op­po­si­tion Leader said the coun­try is "rud­der­less and on dan­ger­ous au­topi­lot" while the Prime Min­is­ter at­tempts to get his min­is­ters in line to over­come the in­ter­nal pow­er strug­gles with­in the PNM. 

"The re­al­i­ty is that Row­ley’s naked at­tempt to play mu­si­cal chairs with his en­tire bunch of in­com­pe­tent Min­is­ters can­not and will nev­er ben­e­fit the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go, now or in the fu­ture. His in­sis­tence on pre­sid­ing over Young's coro­na­tion is a dag­ger to the heart of our coun­try’s democ­ra­cy."

Per­sad-Bisses­sar stat­ed that with the cur­rent con­tention with­in the PNM, all oth­er mat­ters of im­por­tance have been pushed aside. 

"No­tably, this past week, the cur­rent State of Emer­gency, the un­prece­dent­ed, bru­tal, run­away crime and mur­der wave, and on­go­ing eco­nom­ic hard­ships for cit­i­zens have tak­en a back seat, as all PNM MPs and Min­is­ters have gone in­to self-preser­va­tion mode, fol­low­ing Row­ley’s self­ish de­ci­sion to aban­don his gov­ern­ment’s des­per­ate­ly sink­ing ship."

She em­pha­sised that re­gard­less of who the Prime Min­is­ter chose, they would not be fit for the role.

"Row­ley’s on­go­ing im­po­si­tion of Young, or ANY­ONE ELSE, as his re­place­ment is there­fore use­less since this will not fix the run­away crime sit­u­a­tion, cre­ate jobs, or bring the cost of liv­ing down."

She added that on­ly the "UNC Gov­ern­ment can res­cue and re­store se­cu­ri­ty, pros­per­i­ty, peace, and progress to Trinidad and To­ba­go."

She re­it­er­at­ed that she stands ready with her par­ty to sta­bilise T&T.