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With the To­ba­go Peo­ple's Par­ty (TPP) de­mol­ish­ing the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's (PNM) long­stand­ing hold on To­ba­go in Mon­day's elec­tion, its Po­lit­i­cal Leader, Far­ley Au­gus­tine, says the par­ty's two seats in Par­lia­ment will now con­tribute to the two-thirds ma­jor­i­ty re­quired to amend the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), grant­i­ng greater priv­i­leges to is­land's ad­min­is­tra­tion.

The TPP's Joel Samp­son de­feat­ed for­mer To­ba­go West MP Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis, while David Thomas over­came for­mer To­ba­go East MP Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy.

In a tri­umphant speech on Mon­day night, Au­gus­tine, al­so the THA Chief Sec­re­tary, said win­ning both seats was sig­nif­i­cant. He said with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) se­cur­ing 26 seats, the TPP’s two would bring the tal­ly to 28—the ex­act num­ber need­ed to pass cer­tain leg­is­la­tion.