Hours af­ter PNM po­lit­i­cal leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley re­signed, chair­man of the par­ty, Stu­art Young al­so ten­dered his res­ig­na­tion.

In a Face­book post, he said, “Af­ter re­flec­tion yes­ter­day, I have to­day, ten­dered my res­ig­na­tion as Chair­man of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment, ef­fec­tive im­me­di­ate­ly.”

It comes two days af­ter Young and the PNM sank to a ma­jor de­feat in the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tions. The UNC won 26 seats, the PNM won 13 and the TPP took the two To­ba­go seats.

He added, “I thank my par­ty’s mem­ber­ship for the op­por­tu­ni­ty to have served as Chair­man from De­cem­ber 2022 to date. I give my com­mit­ment to con­tin­ue to ad­vo­cate our cause and hold the op­po­si­tion to ac­count on be­half of my con­stituents, my par­ty and the cit­i­zens in the par­lia­ment as we move for­ward.”

This af­ter­noon, the PNM Gen­er­al Coun­cil will meet to de­cide who will be the par­ty’s Op­po­si­tion Leader in par­lia­ment. Both res­ig­na­tions are al­so ex­pect­ed to come up for dis­cus­sion.