Gail Alexan­der

PNM gen­er­al sec­re­tary Mar­tin Joseph says he has not re­ceived any com­mu­ni­ca­tion from PNM's Diego Mar­tin West con­stituen­cy re­gard­ing a no-con­fi­dence mo­tion against Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning. Nor has he re­ceived any "mo­tion of con­fi­dence" in Man­ning re­port­ed­ly em­a­nat­ing from Man­ning's San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy.

Joseph con­firmed the sit­u­a­tion yes­ter­day, af­ter a meet­ing by the Diego Mar­tin West con­stituen­cy last Mon­day where at­ten­dees agreed to for­ward a no-con­fi­dence mo­tion against Man­ning to the rul­ing par­ty's or­gans.

Of­fi­cials of the unit said then that the mo­tion from for­mer min­is­ter Kei­th Row­ley's con­stituen­cy was to have been put to PNM's gen­er­al coun­cil which meets Sat­ur­day morn­ing. PNM al­so holds an­oth­er in its mo­bil­i­sa­tion meet­ings on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon at Cas­ca­dia Ho­tel. (GA)