Ken Ali

A vote of con­fi­dence in Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

That is how front­line Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal last night termed the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship's lo­cal gov­ern­ment vic­to­ry. "It is con­fi­dence in her man­ner of gov­er­nance," said Mooni­lal, speak­ing at the home of vic­to­ri­ous Pe­nal/Debe can­di­date Prem­nath Sookoo.

He added: "It is a vote for her lead­er­ship style, of her com­mit­ment to equal­i­ty and in­clu­sive­ness. She has led by ex­am­ple." Mooni­lal, Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and En­vi­ron­ment, termed Per­sad-Bisses­sar as a leader of "com­pas­sion and com­mit­ment. It is an en­dorse­ment of her style of gov­er­nance," he added. He al­so in­ter­pret­ed the elec­tion re­sults as re­jec­tion for the "mono­chro­mat­ic and ar­ro­gant PNM style." He claimed "the PNM is on the way out."

Mooni­lal al­so hailed Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Chan­dresh Shar­ma for his over­all lead­er­ship of the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship cam­paign. "He was ex­treme­ly hard-work­ing," he added. Even be­fore the polls, Shar­ma had sum­moned a meet­ing to­day of all elect­ed coun­cil­lors. Mooni­lal, who ran the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion cam­paign, said he was ex­treme­ly pleased about the suc­cess. This is on­ly the sec­ond time the PNM has lost con­trol of the coun­try's sec­ond city.