The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is con­demn­ing the ac­tions of the Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty’s (PEP) leader Phillip Alexan­der who they claim at­tempt­ed to force a con­fronta­tion with a PNM can­di­date while cam­paign­ing on Sat­ur­day.

In a state­ment, the PNM said Alexan­der host­ed a live video where he was ag­gres­sive­ly shout­ing and loud­ly knock­ing on the cam­paign of­fice for the PNM can­di­date for New Vil­lage in Point Fortin Leslie Pas­call.

“We re­ject the bul­ly­ing bel­liger­ence, and we re­ject that pa­thet­ic at­tempt by you and your hand­ful of sup­port­ers to drag Point Fortin to those low lev­els. The par­ty’s ex­ec­u­tive wants these mock­ing pre­tenders to know that Point is Love and we will not al­low these an­noy­ances to at­tack our sen­si­bil­i­ties. The ex­ec­u­tive sin­cere­ly hopes that the Ethics Coun­cil is ‘mon­i­tor­ing’ these acts of ag­gres­sion and will con­demn same with alacrity,” the re­lease stat­ed.

When Guardian Me­dia reached out to Alexan­der for com­ment, he ac­knowl­edged that he did knock on the can­di­date’s door but de­nied bang­ing. He ac­cused the PNM of hi­jack­ing elec­tions by cre­at­ing dis­trac­tions.

“This elec­tion has been hi­jacked by po­lit­i­cal stunts that have noth­ing to do with the Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tions or lo­cal gov­ern­ment is­sues and the PEP is hav­ing none of that … I’d like to add that the PNM that has been brought be­fore the Po­lit­i­cal Ethics Coun­cil on mul­ti­ple oc­ca­sions in this elec­tion are the last ones to guide on prop­er be­hav­iour,” Alexan­der said.