With the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress still to re­veal 15 re­main­ing can­di­dates, po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed is sug­gest­ing the par­ty's strat­e­gy of spo­rad­i­cal­ly an­nounc­ing its can­di­dates for the April 28 poll was pos­si­bly due to po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar be­ing wary of in­cum­bent MPs dis­sent­ing be­fore the elec­tion.

Mo­hammed ques­tioned the use of the tac­tic with the Gen­er­al Elec­tion 26 days away.

"Nom­i­na­tion day is on Fri­day, it makes no sense to be hold­ing or dan­gling this car­rot on a stick over the heads of these per­sons," Mo­hammed said in an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia on Tues­day.