Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has called the an­nounce­ment of Stu­art Young to re­place Dr Kei­th Row­ley as Prime Min­is­ter “un­de­mo­c­ra­t­ic.”

Yes­ter­day, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley an­nounced En­er­gy Min­is­ter Young as his suc­ces­sor, af­ter he re­vealed last week that he would be step­ping down from the po­si­tion be­fore his term comes to an end.

He made the an­nounce­ment dur­ing a me­dia con­fer­ence af­ter a two-day Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Par­lia­men­tary Cau­cus at the To­ba­go Plan­ta­tions.

How­ev­er, a short while af­ter she ar­rived at a UNC cot­tage meet­ing at the par­ty’s head­quar­ters at Mulchan Seuchan Road, Ch­agua­nas, last evening, Per­sad-Bisses­sar weighed in on the de­vel­op­ment.

“To­day, we have re­placed a lazy, greedy, self­ish old man, with a lazy, greedy, self­ish young man,” she said.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the PNM was tak­ing the path of US Pres­i­dent Joe Biden and his Vice Pres­i­dent Ka­mala Har­ris in the re­cent­ly held Unit­ed States pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, “by un­de­mo­c­ra­t­i­cal­ly anoint­ing Stu­art Young as his suc­ces­sor to be Prime Min­is­ter and like Joe Biden and Ka­mala Har­ris, they will be de­feat­ed in the gen­er­al elec­tion.”

On Fri­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the Prime Min­is­ter’s de­ci­sion to an­nounce his re­tire­ment was a “clear ad­mis­sion of his fail­ure to lead T&T ef­fec­tive­ly.”

Per­sad-Bisses­sar said then that, “(Row­ley’s) lega­cy is one of fail­ure, di­vi­sion, and de­spair, leav­ing a na­tion in dark­ness. He should do the ho­n­ourable thing and call the elec­tions.”

She added then, “He and his PNM MPs, most of whom he has foist­ed on the pop­u­la­tion as can­di­dates for the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, have bru­talised busi­ness­es and im­pov­er­ished cit­i­zens, al­lowed a vi­o­lent crime cri­sis and de­stroyed every in­de­pen­dent in­sti­tu­tion in T&T. Row­ley and his Min­is­ters have tak­en us to a failed state with a lame-duck Prime Min­is­ter and Gov­ern­ment. The Gov­ern­ment is in chaos.”