Sascha Wil­son

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is pan­ick­ing and will try any­thing to huff a seat from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC). This was the view of for­mer UNC min­is­ter Sub­has Pan­day who rub­bished claims by the PNM that the nom­i­na­tion of UNC Princes Town MP Bar­ry Padarath is in­valid. Pan­day held a press con­fer­ence in San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day to re­spond to the PNM’s in­ten­tion to chal­lenge Padarath’s el­i­gi­bil­i­ty to con­test Mon­day’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

Pan­day said, “The PNM is re­al­ly try­ing a low dodge to huff a seat from the UNC.”

He said that there was no way Padarath could have signed the doc­u­ment be­cause he was in manda­to­ry quar­an­tine and in­com­mu­ni­ca­do. As a re­sult, he said the nor­mal rules could not have ap­plied to him.

“I get the im­pres­sion that the PNM is pan­ick­ing and they clutch­ing at any straw to hold on to any­thing…”

He be­lieves that any at­tempt at le­gal re­dress on this mat­ter by the PNM will fail.

“I am cer­tain that any court that they go to that the court will be sen­si­ble, that the court will be rea­son­able, and the court will kick the PNM through the door.”

He called on the Princes Town elec­torate to come out in their num­bers like nev­er be­fore and vote for Padarath. At a press con­fer­ence ear­li­er this week, PNM chair­man Colm Im­bert claimed Padarath’s nom­i­na­tion was in­valid be­cause the in­cor­rect form was used.

How­ev­er, Pan­day stat­ed that the doc­u­ment was deemed valid and ac­cept­ed by the EBC, along with Padarath’s de­posit.