Dr. Denise Tsoiafatt-An­gus re­signed from her po­si­tion as Pre­sid­ing Of­fi­cer of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly on Thurs­day.

Her res­ig­na­tion let­ter to the As­sem­bly Leg­is­la­ture's clerk was leaked on so­cial me­dia be­fore her 1:30 pm of­fi­cial an­nounce­ment to the me­dia.

Sources say Tsoiat­fatt-An­gus is mak­ing way to con­test the po­si­tion of the po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment To­ba­go Coun­cil in­ter­nal elec­tions.

Chief Sec­re­tary Kelvin Charles made a sim­i­lar move in Jan­u­ary 2016, when he re­signed as the As­sem­bly's pre­sid­ing of­fi­cer.

He con­test­ed the elec­tion as was ap­point­ed the par­ty's po­lit­i­cal leader.

All 17 To­ba­go Coun­cil po­si­tions, from po­lit­i­cal par­ty leader to wel­fare of­fi­cer, are up for grabs in the par­ty's To­ba­go in­ter­nal elec­tions on Jan­u­ary 19, 2020.