? The Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive plans to re-nom­i­nate PNM po­lit­i­cal leader, Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning to be the can­di­date for their area in Trinidad and To­ba­go's next gen­er­al elec­tion. San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy chair­man Tina Gron­lund-Nunez said yes­ter­day. Gron­lund-Nunez re-em­pha­sised the group's con­fi­dence in Man­ning and de­fend­ed their sup­port for him. She said no­tice would be giv­en this morn­ing (Mon­day) to PNM par­ty groups to con­vene meet­ings re­lat­ed to the nom­i­na­tion of a can­di­date to con­test the San Fer­nan­do East seat for the PNM. Asked whether the con­stituen­cy re­mained con­fi­dent in the Prime Min­is­ter to win the seat for the par­ty, Gron­lund-Nunez said:

"Oh, yes, of course."

She said the con­stituen­cy had al­ready moved a mo­tion of full con­fi­dence in our Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment, the Prime Min­is­ter and the gov­ern­ment not too long ago. "So, there­fore, I do not ex­pect any changes from that feel­ing. That was just not even two weeks ago." Gron­lund-Nunez was re­spond­ing to Man­ning's in­struc­tions for PNM par­ty groups to start the nom­i­na­tion process for can­di­dates to be screened for a gen­er­al elec­tion. Man­ning in­di­cat­ed dur­ing a spe­cial PNM con­ven­tion, last week­end, that the screen­ing process would be­gin on April 7, and his San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy would be the first area to un­der­go the process.

"Be­cause an an­nounce­ment was made yes­ter­day (Sat­ur­day), we will have to com­mence an emer­gency meet­ing of all the par­ty groups, be­cause time does not al­low (oth­er­wise)," Gron­lund-Nunez said. "He (Man­ning) in­di­cat­ed the screen­ing will be­gin on the sev­enth of April, which is right around the cor­ner. So we will have to com­mence (and) call meet­ings of par­ty groups." She ex­plained that the PNM process for se­lect­ing nom­i­nees for a gen­er­al elec­tion fight re­quired the par­ty groups to meet and de­cide on a pos­si­ble can­di­date, who would be pre­sent­ed to the con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive. "That is then dis­cussed by the con­stituen­cy and then the nom­i­na­tion is for­ward­ed to Bal­isi­er House. "No­tice (will go out) to all par­ty group chair­men to call their meet­ings (and) most like­ly that no­tice will be in the con­stituen­cy of­fice by to­mor­row morn­ing."