?The out­come of the UNC lead­er­ship con­test is too close to call, with the dual COP mem­bers the de­ci­sive fac­tor in who wins. In­cum­bent Bas­deo Pan­day holds an edge over con­tenders Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Ramesh Lawrence Ma­haraj among fi­nan­cial vot­ing mem­bers.�Kam­la slipped in pop­u­lar­i­ty for ridi­cul­ing Pan­day, while Ramesh is surg­ing be­cause of his rep­u­ta­tion as a fight­er for peo­ple's rights in bat­tling the gov­ern­ment, and an ef­fec­tive ground cam­paign. These are the ma­jor find­ings of the lat­est Nac­ta track­ing poll, done dur­ing the last week with 386 vot­ers. Vot­ers crit­i­cised Pan­day for out­lin­ing Kam­la's "weak­ness­es," but Kam­la was al­so re­buked for den­i­grat­ing her gu­ru.

The poll shows Kam­la's po­lit­i­cal fate is tied up with dual COP mem­bers, but it is not clear if they will take the risk to try and vote. Un­der­dog Ramesh is fin­ish­ing strong­ly from the rear, earn­ing high rat­ings as the per­son need­ed to re­build UNC to get in­to gov­ern­ment. The poll shows Bas lead­ing with 38 per cent; Ramesh at 27 per cent, and Kam­la 23 per cent, with a mar­gin of er­ror of 6 per cent. Among dual COP mem­bers, Kam­la leads with 74 per cent, with Ramesh was at 16 per cent and Bas 4 per cent.