Renu­ka Singh

All 17 sit­ting Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment have been screened and are await­ing word on whether they would con­test their re­spec­tive seats in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tions.

Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the par­ty, Dave Tan­coo con­firmed that the par­ty has com­plet­ed its screen­ing and would be re­leas­ing the full slate “in­cre­men­tal­ly”.

“We have been nam­ing can­di­dates in­cre­men­tal­ly and will con­tin­ue to do so,” he said in a text mes­sage yes­ter­day.

He said that the par­ty is al­so plan­ning to re­lease more names at its vir­tu­al meet­ing on Thurs­day.

Par­ty chair­man David Lee al­so con­firmed that he has been screened and is wait­ing to hear about the se­lec­tion.

If Lee is se­lect­ed for the Pointe-a-Pierre seat, he would go up against Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice leader, David Ab­dul­lah.

Lee is not wor­ried.

“David Ab­dul­lah is not an is­sue. He is wel­come to run for any con­stituen­cy. When is (sic) time, Mr Ab­dul­lah has many ques­tions to an­swer to the peo­ple and the coun­try,” he said.

The UNC has al­ready named 16 of its se­lec­tion in­clud­ing sen­a­tor Sad­dam Ho­sein for San Juan/Barataria.

There have been ru­mours that be­cause the par­ty is look­ing to re­vamp its im­age, it may opt for new faces but Ram­di­al and Karim are con­fi­dent that they would be re­tained.

Se­lect­ed seats:

Ari­ma - Flo­ra Singh

Barataria/San Juan - Sad­dam Ho­sein

Ch­agua­nas West - Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly

D’Abadie/O’Meara - Mau­rice Hoyte

Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral - John Ri­car­do Laquis

Diego Mar­tin North East - Eli Za­k­our

Diego Mar­tin West - Mar­sha Ri­ley-Walk­er

Moru­ga/Table­land - Michelle Ben­jamin

Point Fortin - Tahar­qa Obi­ka

Port-of-Spain North/ St Ann’s East - Dar­ren Gar­ner

Port-of-Spain South - Cur­tis Orr

San Fer­nan­do West - Sean Sobers

St Ann’s East - Kenya Charles

St Joseph - Ahloy Hunt

To­co San­gre Grande - Nabi­la Greene

Tu­na­puna - David Nakhid