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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Political analyst: Election date could be revealed Sunday

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Political scientist  Dr Indira Rampersad

Political scientist Dr Indira Rampersad

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr In­di­ra Ram­per­sad pre­dicts that the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed elec­tion date will be re­vealed on Sun­day, co­in­cid­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s of­fi­cial res­ig­na­tion. She made the state­ment when she was in­ter­viewed on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew.

Last week, Guardian Me­dia ex­clu­sive­ly re­port­ed that the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) 2025 elec­tion can­di­dates will be un­veiled at a ral­ly on Sun­day. The event is sched­uled for 2 pm at Wood­ford Square, Port of Spain, where the par­ty is ex­pect­ed to present its slate of can­di­dates for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion. This was lat­er con­firmed by PNM Chair­man and Prime Min­is­ter-in-wait­ing Stu­art Young.

Se­nior gov­ern­ment sources have al­so in­di­cat­ed that the gen­er­al elec­tion is like­ly to be held at the end of April. Ac­cord­ing to the Con­sti­tu­tion, Par­lia­ment serves a five-year term, con­clud­ing in Au­gust, with a 90-day win­dow there­after for the elec­tion to be called. How­ev­er, the Pres­i­dent has the au­thor­i­ty to dis­solve Par­lia­ment ear­li­er, act­ing on the ad­vice of the Prime Min­is­ter.

While spec­u­la­tion con­tin­ues re­gard­ing whether Young will for­mal­ly an­nounce the elec­tion date, Ram­per­sad is con­fi­dent that Sundsy’s event could serve as a dual re­veal—con­firm­ing both the new PNM can­di­dates and the na­tion’s next elec­tion day.

“I have a feel­ing come Sun­day when the PM pass­es the ba­ton to Young, he is go­ing to an­nounce al­so the dis­so­lu­tion of Par­lia­ment and per­haps give the date for the elec­tion,” she said.


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