Leader of the To­ba­go Coun­cil of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), An­cil Den­nis, has shut down claims that the par­ty is im­plod­ing af­ter re­ports sur­faced that the move to gath­er sig­na­tures among its MPs to fa­cil­i­tate the ap­point­ment of Stu­art Young as prime min­is­ter had hit a stum­bling block.

While Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) mem­bers at­tend­ed a meet­ing of the Cen­tral Ex­ec­u­tive at Bal­isi­er House yes­ter­day, ahead of the Gen­er­al Coun­cil meet­ing to­mor­row, the op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) claims they were sum­moned to be lam­bast­ed over their re­sponse to En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young be­ing cho­sen as Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s suc­ces­sor.

Con­sti­tu­tion­al at­tor­ney Mar­tin Daly, SC, has warned that the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) risks em­bar­rass­ing Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo if it seeks her ap­proval to ap­point Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West MP Stu­art Young as prime min­is­ter with­out the sup­port of all its MPs.

While there is no va­can­cy for Prime Min­is­ter now, if there is a va­can­cy or an in­ter­nal Par­lia­men­tary “coup,” the rel­e­vant as­pi­rant can sub­mit suf­fi­cient names to show they have the sup­port of the ma­jor­i­ty of MPs, say Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) par­ty sources.