The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has "un­equiv­o­cal­ly con­demned" a cir­cu­lat­ing pho­to which claims the Com­mis­sion’s Chief Elec­tion Of­fi­cer (CEO) and sev­er­al Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cers are af­fil­i­at­ed with a po­lit­i­cal par­ty.

The EBC re­vealed that the mat­ter has been for­mal­ly re­ferred to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice for a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

This fol­lows the emer­gence of a doc­u­ment that named EBC’s CEO, Fern Nar­cis, along with 10 oth­er in­di­vid­u­als ap­point­ed as Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cers, la­belling them as "reg­is­tered PNM mem­bers."

The EBC said these "un­found­ed as­ser­tions gross­ly mis­rep­re­sent the truth and pose a di­rect threat to the in­tegri­ty of the elec­toral process, par­tic­u­lar­ly with the forth­com­ing Par­lia­men­tary Elec­tions sched­uled for Mon­day, 28 April 2025."

The Com­mis­sion, in its re­lease stressed: "We reaf­firm that both the CEO and all Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cers re­main ful­ly com­mit­ted to the prin­ci­ples of im­par­tial­i­ty, pro­fes­sion­al­ism, and the de­mo­c­ra­t­ic val­ues that form the foun­da­tion of our in­sti­tu­tion."

In its state­ment, the EBC con­demned the cir­cu­lat­ing doc­u­ment as a "de­lib­er­ate dis­sem­i­na­tion of mis­in­for­ma­tion," which it ar­gued could un­der­mine pub­lic con­fi­dence and risk erod­ing the de­mo­c­ra­t­ic frame­work the Com­mis­sion is en­trust­ed to pro­tect.

The UNC ques­tioned on Tues­day if Nar­cis was a mem­ber of the PNM; a claim which she has re­peat­ed­ly de­nied.