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The fi­nal re­port of the Com­mon­wealth Ob­serv­er Group (COG) on the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion has raised con­cern over al­le­ga­tions of bribery on polling day and the con­tin­ued lack of le­gal con­trols on cam­paign fi­nanc­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­port, the COG “not­ed re­ports of elec­toral of­fences, in­clud­ing al­le­ga­tions of bribery on elec­tion day.”

It rec­om­mend­ed that all such re­ports be prop­er­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ed and dealt with through the jus­tice sys­tem, stat­ing: “It strong­ly rec­om­mends that re­port­ed of­fences be prompt­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ed, pros­e­cut­ed and ad­ju­di­cat­ed to en­sure ac­count­abil­i­ty, de­ter fu­ture vi­o­la­tions, and safe­guard the in­tegri­ty of the elec­toral process in Trinidad and To­ba­go.”