Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the process for screen­ing po­ten­tial can­di­dates for the To­ba­go East and West seats has start­ed.

The one-year-old par­ty held its first in­ter­nal elec­tions in June to form an ex­ec­u­tive af­ter be­ing es­tab­lished in 2023.

In a so­cial me­dia video, Au­gus­tine wel­comed all in­ter­est­ed in­di­vid­u­als to of­fer them­selves. He said the par­ty was ready and en­cour­aged his mem­bers and sup­port­ers to pre­pare for when Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley an­nounces a date for next year’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

Au­gus­tine said, "All ac­tion groups should be re­ceiv­ing of­fi­cial com­mu­ni­ca­tion from the ex­ec­u­tive of the par­ty that de­tails the con­sti­tu­tion­al steps we ought to take as we vet these can­di­dates and pro­vide the best al­ter­na­tives to rep­re­sent the peo­ple of To­ba­go in the na­tion­al Par­lia­ment."

The par­ty was formed fol­low­ing a fall­out with Au­gus­tine and the po­lit­i­cal leader of the PDP, Wat­son Duke, in Sep­tem­ber 2022. The en­tire ex­ec­u­tive re­signed from the PDP, mov­ing on to form the TPP in 2023. The fall­out oc­curred months af­ter the PDP’s 14-1 vic­to­ry against the PNM in the De­cem­ber 6, 2021, THA elec­tions.