Sto­ry by BAVI­TA GOPAULCHAN

The Pa­tri­ot­ic Front (PF) is yet to de­cide whether it will throw its sup­port be­hind oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ties con­test­ing the up­com­ing Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Just yes­ter­day the par­ty’s po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day an­nounced their ex­it from the race, cit­ing time and fi­nances as the is­sues.

Pan­day says at this stage, the par­ty is mon­i­tor­ing all po­lit­i­cal forces.

“I don’t know if it’s the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front’s po­si­tion to look at oth­ers and say if there’s a vi­able op­tion,” she told Guardian Me­dia, “but one of the rea­sons we were con­test­ing is be­cause we did not think so.”

She added: “I would like to see what the oth­ers are say­ing. I would like to hear a lit­tle bit about their poli­cies like the rest of Trinidad and To­ba­go, as op­posed to mud­sling­ing and co­pi­ous amounts of al­le­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion.”

Mick­ela Pan­day says even though the par­ty is not con­test­ing the Gen­er­al Elec­tion on Au­gust 10th, its mem­bers will re­main ac­tive on the ground.