Rad­hi­ca De Sil­va

Op­po­si­tion leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her par­ty's lawyers are in­ves­ti­gat­ing mul­ti­ple ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties in sev­er­al polling sta­tions across the coun­try.

Speak­ing to re­porters af­ter cast­ing her bal­lot at the Her­mitage Pres­by­ter­ian School in La Ro­maine, Per­sad- Bisses­sar said the UNC had run a cam­paign of which the par­ty could be proud.

"The feed­back we are get­ting is that there is a steady stream of vot­ers. It is a pos­i­tive sign that peo­ple are in­ter­est­ed in cast­ing their vote," she said.

How­ev­er, she said the UNC had lawyers in all mu­nic­i­pal­i­ties and there were on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties.

"There are mul­ti­ple in­stances in which polling agents sched­uled to work to­day at poll sta­tions we're re­port­ed­ly ap­proached by per­sons rep­re­sent­ing an­oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ty and of­fered in­duce­ments to stand down," she said.

She al­so said an­oth­er par­ty was us­ing ve­hi­cles to trans­port per­son­nel in the bor­oughs and cities which have EBC stick­ers is­sued by the po­lice. Our lawyers have ad­vised that this is not in keep­ing with the Rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the Peo­ple's Act which at the third sched­ule ad­vis­es the re­gion­al mu­nic­i­pal­i­ties and the ra­tio of cars per­mis­si­ble.

Asked to com­ment on the lyrics of one of her can­di­dates which sparked a law­suit by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the mat­ter is now be­fore the court and she pre­ferred to not com­ment on mat­ters of sub­ju­dice.

She al­so said she had re­ports on the list of spe­cial elec­tors in Princes Town hav­ing to vote in di­rect con­tra­ven­tion to the law.

While Per­sad-Bisses­sar ex­pressed con­fi­dence in the over­all elec­tion re­sult, she said some bound­ary shifts were cause for con­cern.

She said a new seat had been cre­at­ed in the La Ro­maine re­gion and this may pose a chal­lenge for the par­ty.

UNC's pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer Ani­ta Haynes said they are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a re­port that a se­nior PNM of­fi­cer was al­leged­ly of­fer­ing a $200 in­duce­ment to res­i­dents of Em­bac­cadere, San Fer­nan­do to get them to vote for the PNM. She said when they ar­rived at the site, res­i­dents con­firmed an of­fer was made but no­body took it. No­body has come for­ward to make any re­ports to the po­lice.