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Monday, July 7, 2025

NJAC congratulates UNC, TPP

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The Na­tion­al Joint Ac­tion Com­mit­tee (NJAC) has con­grat­u­lat­ed the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and the Coali­tion of In­ter­ests on what it de­scribed as “a well-de­served vic­to­ry in the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tions,” while urg­ing the new ad­min­is­tra­tion to pur­sue a more eq­ui­table mod­el of na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment.

In a state­ment is­sued on Tues­day, NJAC al­so ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to Prime Min­is­ter-elect Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar—who now be­comes Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sec­ond fe­male Prime Min­is­ter—as well as Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine and the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) for their suc­cess in To­ba­go.

NJAC, which was a mem­ber of the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship coali­tion that brought Per­sad-Bisses­sar to pow­er in 2010, used the mo­ment to call for a shift in gov­er­nance pri­or­i­ties.

“There is now an op­por­tu­ni­ty to re­set our mode of de­vel­op­ment from one that was cen­tred around the rich and wealthy gain­ing in­creased eco­nom­ic dom­i­nance un­der the for­mer PNM Gov­ern­ment to one that could be more peo­ple-cen­tred and there­fore al­low­ing for a more eq­ui­table dis­tri­b­u­tion of re­sources,” the par­ty said.

The par­ty al­so in­ter­pret­ed the elec­tion re­sults as a sign of deep­en­ing po­lit­i­cal ma­tu­ri­ty in the elec­torate. “The re­sults of the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tions sig­nal the con­tin­ued mat­u­ra­tion of the pop­u­la­tion and a grad­ual shift in po­lit­i­cal de­mo­graph­ics, with a re­duc­tion in vot­ing along racial lines,” NJAC said.

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