Chester Sam­bra­no

373 can­di­dates will be con­test­ing the up­com­ing Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tions on Mon­day, Au­gust 14, 2023.

Ac­cord­ing to the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion(EBC), ten po­lit­i­cal par­ties have put for­ward can­di­dates with the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment be­ing the on­ly po­lit­i­cal par­ty with can­di­dates in all 141 elec­toral dis­tricts.

The oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ties are the Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ), Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA), Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP), Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP), Re-Unit­ed Farm­ers Al­liance, The Na­tion­al Par­ty (TNP), Trinidad Hu­man­i­ty Cam­paign (THC), Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC)and Uni­ty of The Peo­ple (UTP).

The EBC says there will al­so be six in­de­pen­dent can­di­dates in the race in these re­spec­tive elec­toral dis­tricts: Bel­mont South – Vi­vian John­son, Pleas­antville – Dix­ie-Ann El­liot, Hol­ly­wood – Irvin Samuel Fe­lix, Ma­yaro South/Guyagua­yare – Kendell Michael Ha­gley, Va­len­cia West – Gwen­dolyn Alana Charles and Blan­chisseuse/San­ta Rosa – Kath­leen Wash­ing­ton.