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Econ­o­mist and UWI Lec­tur­er Dr Mar­lene Attzs has de­nied any af­fil­i­a­tion with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

She told Guardian Me­dia she has nev­er been ap­proached to screen nor had she in­di­cat­ed any in­ter­est in screen­ing.

When con­tact­ed, Dr Attzs said, “This is com­plete news to me – ei­ther a fab­ri­ca­tion or some­one’s wish­ful think­ing. I’ve nev­er put my­self up for screen­ing, ex­cept dur­ing air­port se­cu­ri­ty checks. It’s un­for­tu­nate that, with so many se­ri­ous so­cio-eco­nom­ic is­sues at stake, po­lit­i­cal mis­chief is tak­ing cen­tre stage. As we ap­proach the elec­tions, the fo­cus should be on crit­i­cal na­tion­al mat­ters, not on drag­ging non-po­lit­i­cal in­di­vid­u­als in­to crass po­lit­i­cal games.”