As the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress set­tles in­to Gov­ern­ment, To­ba­go’s de­feat­ed po­lit­i­cal par­ties are re­group­ing and re-strate­gis­ing af­ter a his­toric Gen­er­al Elec­tion loss that saw both the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) swept aside by the new­ly formed To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP).

The PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil has launched a se­ries of is­land­wide com­mu­ni­ty meet­ings in a bid to re­build. The ses­sions be­gan last night in Buc­coo/Mt Pleas­ant and are ex­pect­ed to run through May 29 in Ma­son Hall/Mo­ri­ah. Par­ty of­fi­cials said the meet­ings are sched­uled to take place in every elec­toral dis­trict.

The par­ty said it’s aim­ing to lis­ten to the peo­ple, as­sess what went wrong, and chart a new path for­ward to­geth­er.

De­spite the loss, the po­lit­i­cal leader of the To­ba­go Coun­cil, An­cil Den­nis, said he would not re­sign and planned to stay on as deputy po­lit­i­cal leader on the na­tion­al ex­ec­u­tive of the PNM. This comes as sev­er­al se­nior PNM of­fi­cials, in­clud­ing for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young, have stepped down from par­ty posts in the wake of the elec­tion de­feat.

An­a­lysts have said the re­sults re­flect wide­spread dis­sat­is­fac­tion with the PNM and grow­ing calls for po­lit­i­cal change on the is­land.

Mean­while, PDP leader Wat­son Duke has al­so vowed to keep the po­lit­i­cal fight on, even af­ter his par­ty failed to se­cure ei­ther To­ba­go East or West seats.

In a voice mes­sage post­ed on­line, Duke said the PDP will not give up.

“We will not stop un­til To­ba­go wins. We will not stop un­til all ah we win To­ba­go.”

He thanked those who sup­port­ed the PDP and helped spread the par­ty’s mes­sage across the is­land—say­ing the elec­tion de­feat was not the end.

The PDP leader said the par­ty is ex­pect­ed to con­test the 2026 To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tion.