The po­lit­i­cal leader of the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) is de­fend­ing the im­par­tial­i­ty of the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) amid claims of “po­lit­i­cal bias” by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC).

Dur­ing a po­lit­i­cal meet­ing in St Joseph last evening, Gary Grif­fith voiced his sup­port for the in­sti­tu­tion and un­der­scored the im­por­tance of ad­her­ing to its es­tab­lished pro­ce­dures.

The NTA leader fur­ther con­demned po­lit­i­cal par­ties for what he says are at­tempts to bring the EBC in­to dis­re­pute.

“The coun­try needs to calm down and ap­pre­ci­ate the fact that the EBC [is un­bi­ased]—and there has been noth­ing that we have seen to show any­thing [like that]”, he told Guardian Me­dia.

“What we have seen is that the EBC has been very pro­fes­sion­al. They have done their work,” he said.

Mean­while, Grif­fith ex­plained that the NTA's cal­cu­lat­ed ap­proach to the Gen­er­al Elec­tion should not be in­ter­pret­ed as a “sab­o­tage at­tempt”.

“We are not vote split­ters,” he as­sert­ed. “We have a rep­re­sen­ta­tion of those in­di­vid­u­als who are not PNM or UNC ‘till they die’.”

“Per­sons be­lieve we must just join with the UNC to beat the PNM. We are not about that,” the NTA leader said. “We are about good gov­er­nance, not just re­mov­ing the gov­ern­ment.”

Grif­fith en­cour­aged the elec­torate to se­lect their next leader wise­ly.

He al­so urged vot­ers to be wary of false promis­es and cos­met­ic al­liances.