Yet another People's National Movement councillor has crossed the floor to the People's Partnership. The revelation came on Friday at the Congress of the People (COP) meeting on Friday in Arima. Outgoing councillor for Calvary on the Arima Borough Council (ABC), Pheria Fournillier mounted the COP platform criticising the PNM on lack of performance and disregard for the burgesses. Having served her constituency from 2003 to 2010, Fournillier told party leader Winston Dookeran, deputy political leader Prakash Ramdadhar and seven of the party's councillors contesting tomorrow's election in the ABC that she jumped ship when she saw how Arima was stifled for progress and development over the past seven years.
"The people have suffered for too long under the PNM. Do not vote for them," Fournillier warned. Fournillier who is working closely with COP's candidate for Arima Central Clinton Jennings, a family member, said she was welcomed into COP's camp with open arms last month. "When I see what the People's Partnership has been doing for the past two months, I realise I have been on the wrong team."
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