The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has is­sued a state­ment con­grat­u­lat­ing the Star Team—led by Op­po­si­tion Leader and mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Siparia, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar SC MP—on its vic­to­ry in the par­ty’s re­cent in­ter­nal elec­tions.

The elec­tions, which were held on Sun­day 26 June 2022, saw some 13,000 peo­ple brave the in­clement weath­er to en­sure they had a say in who would lead their po­lit­i­cal par­ty over the next few years.  Some 95% of those who vot­ed re­turned Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar as Po­lit­i­cal Leader, and en­sured her slate, the Star Team, as­cend­ed to po­si­tions of au­thor­i­ty and re­spon­si­bil­i­ty on the par­ty’s ex­ec­u­tive.

“The re­sults show that the UNC is unit­ed and strong as nev­er be­fore.  All can­di­dates are con­grat­u­lat­ed for their par­tic­i­pa­tion,” the re­lease is­sued by the UNC stat­ed.

“The pre­lim­i­nary fig­ures as of last night showed that ap­prox­i­mate­ly 13,000 peo­ple came out to vote, de­spite the ad­verse weath­er warn­ing, heavy rain, thun­der, flood­ing, and pow­er out­ages in much of the coun­try. The Star team re­ceived over 95% of the votes cast,” it said. “Con­grat­u­la­tions once again to the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the Star Team for their over­whelm­ing land­slide vic­to­ry.”

The new Na­tion­al Ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers are:

- Po­lit­i­cal Leader: Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar

- Deputy Po­lit­i­cal Lead­ers: Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, David Lee, Jear­lean John

- Chair­man: Dave Tan­coo

- Vice-Chair­man: Khadi­jah Ameen

- Ed­u­ca­tion Of­fi­cer: Van­dana Mo­hit

- Re­search Of­fi­cer: Sad­dam Ho­sein

- Elec­tions Of­fi­cer: Don Sylvester

- Par­ty Or­gan­is­er: Ravi Rati­ram

- Trea­sur­er: Neil Go­sine

- To­ba­go Re­gion­al Co-or­di­na­tor: Tahar­qa Obi­ka

- Pol­i­cy and Strat­e­gy Co-or­di­na­tor: Sean Sobers

- In­ter­na­tion­al Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer: Wil­fred Mor­ris

- South Co-or­di­na­tor: Shan­ti Boodram

- Cen­tral Co-or­di­na­tor: Bar­ry Padarath

- North­west Co-or­di­na­tor: Eli Za­k­our

- North­east Co-or­di­na­tor: Anil Roberts

The UNC re­lease al­so made a clar­i­on call for the mem­ber­ship to knuck­le down to en­sur­ing the rul­ing Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al move­ment is re­moved from pow­er in up­com­ing na­tion­al elec­tions.

“Now it is time to put the in­ter­nal elec­tions be­hind, unite and work to­geth­er as one par­ty to de­feat the PNM and win the next lo­cal and gen­er­al elec­tions, when­ev­er they are held,” the par­ty’s state­ment said.

It al­so not­ed that con­stituen­cy elec­tions are the next in­ter­nal elec­tions sched­uled for the par­ty as the UNC con­tin­ues to pre­pare for gov­ern­ment.