Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar got 11,556 votes and chal­lenger Dr Fuad Khan re­ceived 644 in last Sun­day’s UNC Na­tion­al Ex­ec­u­tive elec­tion.

This is ac­cord­ing to the pre­lim­i­nary re­sults of last Sun­day’s par­ty elec­tion. It was sent by UNC elec­tion team chair­man Ramesh Per­sad-Ma­haraj on Tues­day. He’d said there was a low vot­er turnout due to the rains.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­ceived less votes in this lead­er­ship elec­tion than she re­ceived in the 2020 lead­er­ship elec­tion, where she was un­suc­cess­ful­ly chal­lenged by Vas­ant Bharath. In the 2020 elec­tion, she re­ceived 14,873 votes and Bharath 2,193.

In the 2017 UNC in­ter­nals, she won the lead­er­ship with 20,328 votes and in the 2015 elec­tions she se­cured 17,502.

In the 2017 elec­tion race, she was chal­lenged by Bharath, who dropped out, ex-MP Chris­tine Newal­lo-Ho­sein and Chan­da Bag­gan. She was chal­lenged by UNC front­lin­er Roodal Mooni­lal in 2015.

Yes­ter­day, Khan said, “(Last Sun­day’s) re­sults show that 644 peo­ple be­lieve in change and an in­no­v­a­tive ap­proach to gen­er­al elec­tion sys­tem change, which is in keep­ing with the pop­u­la­tion’s curve bell of in­tel­li­gence. Gen­er­al­ly, 95 per cent of peo­ple are fol­low­ers, five per cent are usu­al­ly ear­ly adopters of change and those who think. But the idea will be ac­cept­ed in the fu­ture—it’s like new things and ideas in­tro­duced.”

“All go through that curve. They’re ac­cus­tomed to keep­ing that sta­tus quo un­til it keeps fail­ing. Win­ning was an im­pos­si­bil­i­ty. But a fair elec­tion wasn’t done—that’s the main is­sue and there was no need for un­fair­ness as they could have won any­way,” Khan claimed, main­tain­ing 12,000 votes were not cast and “4,000 votes came from the sky.”