The Op­po­si­tion has nom­i­nat­ed Mr Is­rael Khan, Se­nior Coun­sel, for Pres­i­dent. In a press re­lease is­sued by the Op­po­si­tion, she asked the gov­ern­ment to con­sid­er his ap­point­ment. 

The fol­low­ing is a press re­lase from the Op­po­si­tion Leader, 

The Op­po­si­tion has to­day re­quest­ed the Gov­ern­ment to con­sid­er Mr Is­rael Khan, Se­nior Coun­sel, for Pres­i­dent of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go.  

Yes­ter­day, we in­di­cat­ed our non-sup­port for Ms Kan­ga­loo on the ba­sis, in­ter alia, that as a sit­ting PNM politi­cian un­der the hand of the Prime Min­is­ter, se­ri­ous is­sues would arise about ap­par­ent bias in de­ci­sion-mak­ing. We stat­ed our will­ing­ness to work to­wards a con­sen­sus nom­i­nee.  

To this end, we have pro­posed that Mr Khan be con­sid­ered as the nom­i­nee for Pres­i­dent. 

Giv­en Mr Khan’s fierce­ly in­de­pen­dent track record, sig­nif­i­cant ex­pe­ri­ence with­in the le­gal fra­ter­ni­ty as well as his dy­nam­ic con­tri­bu­tions to our na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment, we are of the view that he is a suit­able can­di­date for this dis­tin­guished of­fice.