The new Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Cab­i­net is ex­pect­ed to be sworn in on Fri­day, par­ty sources have in­di­cat­ed.

The venue is like­ly to be Pres­i­dent’s House. This af­ter Mon­day’s 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion where the PNM won 22 seats of the 41 con­test­ed. The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress won the oth­er 19.

The UNC has re­quest­ed a re­count in five seats while the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty’s Wat­son Duke has asked for one in To­ba­go East. As such, the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has in­di­cat­ed the of­fi­cial re­sults will be re­leased af­ter re­counts are com­plet­ed.

On a po­ten­tial Cab­i­net, PNM sources hint­ed that a num­ber of min­is­ters may be brought in via the Sen­ate.

They al­so tipped San Fer­nan­do West’s Faris Al-Rawi to re­turn as At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and St Joseph MP can­di­date Ter­rance Deyals­ingh in Health.

There’s spec­u­la­tion Diego Mar­tin North East’s Colm Im­bert may be re­turned to Fi­nance or go to En­er­gy. Im­bert had ex­pressed in­ter­est in En­er­gy pri­or to the 2017 poll and had ob­tained de­grees in that field.

Ari­ma win­ner Pen­ny Beck­les has been tipped for the For­eign Af­fairs Min­istry.

Spec­u­la­tion has al­so ex­tend­ed to whether Bri­an Man­ning may be placed in the Of­fice of the PM in the po­si­tion of Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary. His fa­ther, late for­mer prime min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning, had start­ed his po­lit­i­cal ca­reer as a PS. How­ev­er, dur­ing the elec­tion cam­paign, PNM leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley had said his Gov­ern­ment will in­clude a Min­istry of Tech­nolo­gies and Records to han­dle record digi­ti­sa­tion. Part of PNM’s fu­ture gov­ern­ment plan in­volves digi­ti­sa­tion.

Sen­ate ap­point­ments are al­so ex­pect­ed for PNM com­mu­ni­ca­tion man­ag­er Lau­rel Leza­ma-Lee Sing and de­feat­ed St Au­gus­tine can­di­date Renu­ka Sagram­s­ingh-Sookalal - both of whom were “stars” of PNM’s cam­paign plat­form.

But sources said de­feat­ed Ch­agua­nas East can­di­date Clarence Ramb­harath may not serve in the Par­lia­ment again as a sen­a­tor, since he was al­so de­feat­ed in Ma­yaro in 2015 (and was brought in­to the Sen­ate then). Ramb­harat is tipped to be an ad­vi­sor or serve with­in the state sec­tor.

Oth­er PNM sources tipped La Hor­quet­ta can­di­date Fos­ter Cum­mings for Pub­lic Util­i­ties, St Ann’s East’s Nyan Gads­by Dol­ly to Ed­u­ca­tion and Port-of-Spain South’s Kei­th Scot­land to the AG’s Min­istry.

In­sid­ers al­so spec­u­lat­ed that for­mer min­is­ters Con­rad Enill and Robert Le Hunte may al­so serve.

While for­mer UNC MP Su­ruj Ram­bachan yes­ter­day called for the PNM to ap­point a House Speak­er whom he said would treat the Op­po­si­tion with“less con­tempt” than pre­vi­ous Speak­er Bridgid An­nisette-George did, some PNM of­fi­cials didn’t rule out that she may be re­turned to the chair and that Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo may al­so head the Sen­ate again.

Sev­er­al am­bas­sadors - such as Amery Browne - are still re­port­ed­ly over­seas due to the bor­der clo­sure.