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Sunday, May 25, 2025

EBC condemns UNC’s claims of political bias, refers fake online document to police

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31 days ago
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The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has strong­ly re­ject­ed al­le­ga­tions that it is col­lud­ing with the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) to rig the up­com­ing Gen­er­al Elec­tion and has re­ferred a wide­ly cir­cu­lat­ed doc­u­ment to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) for in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

The doc­u­ment in ques­tion names Chief Elec­tion Of­fi­cer Fern Nar­cis and ten re­turn­ing of­fi­cers, false­ly la­belling them as “reg­is­tered PNM mem­bers.” The EBC has de­scribed the claims as “un­found­ed as­ser­tions” that pose a se­ri­ous threat to the in­tegri­ty of the elec­toral process.

“These gross mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tions could erode pub­lic con­fi­dence in our democ­ra­cy,” the com­mis­sion said, call­ing the doc­u­ment a “de­lib­er­ate dis­sem­i­na­tion of mis­in­for­ma­tion.”

This comes af­ter the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) open­ly ac­cused the EBC of bias. At a me­dia con­fer­ence on Tues­day, Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Wade Mark said the par­ty had no con­fi­dence in the EBC and warned that any at­tempt to frus­trate the elec­torate’s will would lead to pub­lic back­lash.

“A storm is brew­ing,” Mark warned. “We be­lieve that the PNM is work­ing with the EBC to frus­trate the will of the peo­ple by steal­ing the next gen­er­al elec­tion.”

UNC at­tor­ney Dar­rell Al­la­har al­so pub­licly ques­tioned Nar­cis’ po­lit­i­cal af­fil­i­a­tion and de­mand­ed clar­i­ty.

In re­sponse, Nar­cis told Guardian Me­dia: “I am not a mem­ber of any po­lit­i­cal par­ty, nor have I ever been a mem­ber of a par­ty. This has been ven­ti­lat­ed in the pub­lic do­main al­ready.”

The EBC re­it­er­at­ed that both the Chief Elec­tion Of­fi­cer and re­turn­ing of­fi­cers re­main ful­ly com­mit­ted to im­par­tial­i­ty, pro­fes­sion­al­ism and the de­mo­c­ra­t­ic val­ues on which the Com­mis­sion is found­ed.


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