There is a new pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Par­ent Teacher As­so­ci­a­tion (NPTA). Kevin David will lead a 12-mem­ber ex­ec­u­tive whose le­gal­i­ty is be­ing chal­lenged on the grounds that yes­ter­day’s elec­tion, held at the Va­len­cia Sec­ondary School, was un­fair.

The elec­tion went ahead yes­ter­day de­spite claims by Clarence Men­doza, head of the Con­cerned Par­ents Move­ment of T&T (CPMTT), of vot­ing ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties.

Men­doza claimed that more than 100 reg­is­tered mem­bers were barred from cast­ing their votes.

“Clear­ly what we’ve been to the courts for did not ma­te­ri­alise, so we will be speak­ing be­fore the court,” he told Guardian Me­dia.

“Jus­tice Gob­in is the jus­tice that told us to go ahead and have an elec­tion to clean up some of this. Ev­i­dent­ly, that nev­er took place so we will be back be­fore the courts in the short­est pos­si­ble time so we can get this rec­ti­fied.”

The CPMTT leader’s claims have been re­fut­ed by David who said the process was trans­par­ent and above board.

David, who takes over the po­si­tion pre­vi­ous­ly held by Zena Ra­matali, said the new NPTA ex­ec­u­tive will be wast­ing no time in tack­ling a re­cent burn­ing is­sue

“We have been called to a meet­ing on Mon­day with the Min­istry in which we will be dis­cussing the vi­o­lence with­in our school sys­tem, so from Mon­day bright and ear­ly we will be hit­ting the ground,” he said.