In the midst of an ex­plo­sion of racial com­men­tary on so­cial me­dia in the wake of the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion re­sult, an on­line pe­ti­tion for leg­is­la­tion against racism has been start­ed and is cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith de­scribed as reck­less and dan­ger­ous Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo’s ac­cu­sa­tion that the po­lice used road­block ex­er­cis­es in Curepe as a tac­tic to frus­trate vot­ers from get­ting to a polling sta­tion in St Au­gus­tine.

Chief Elec­tions Of­fi­cer Fern Nar­cis-Scope said yes­ter­day that the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) had re­ceived six re­quests for re­counts in mar­gin­al con­stituen­cies.

The re­count of bal­lot box­es in the San Fer­nan­do West, St Joseph and To­co/San­gre Grande seats start­ed yes­ter­day, even as the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) an­nounced it was com­pil­ing a list of al­leged vot­er ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties to take to the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC).

The new Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Cab­i­net is ex­pect­ed to be sworn in on Fri­day, par­ty sources have in­di­cat­ed.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment will par­tic­i­pate in any re­count the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress wants in any seat - but it won’t change the Gen­er­al Elec­tion re­sults, says PNM gen­er­al sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings.

Op­po­si­tion leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar seems like­ly to face yet an­oth­er bat­tle for the reins of her par­ty fol­low­ing an­oth­er de­feat by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment in Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress stal­warts Dr Su­ruj Ram­bachan and Dr Tim Gopeesingh are de­fend­ing par­ty leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar against so­cial me­dia calls that she steps down in the wake of her lat­est de­feat in the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment, 22, Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress, 19 - but the UNC’s not con­ced­ing

This was the de­c­la­ra­tion from Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley last night as the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment se­cured a 22-19 seat vic­to­ry over the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress in the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

For the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) won the two To­ba­go seats - East and West.

San Fer­nan­do West can­di­date Faris Al-Rawi has con­firmed that the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) plans to file an elec­tion pe­ti­tion for the Princes Town con­stituen­cy.