For­mer Ma­yaro MP Rush­ton Paray, once la­belled a dis­si­dent with­in the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), has ex­pressed full sup­port for Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar fol­low­ing her un­op­posed re-elec­tion as Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the par­ty on Sun­day.

Paray, who led the Unit­ed Pa­tri­ots slate and mount­ed a chal­lenge for the post of deputy po­lit­i­cal leader dur­ing the UNC’s 2024 in­ter­nal elec­tions, said the lat­est out­come sig­nals a clear man­date that should be re­spect­ed by all par­ty mem­bers.

In a state­ment to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Paray ac­knowl­edged Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s con­tin­ued lead­er­ship, stat­ing, “Mrs Per­sad-Bisses­sar has been giv­en an un­ques­tion­able man­date to lead this coun­try for the next five years, with no chal­lengers in the lead­er­ship elec­tion. That de­ci­sion must be re­spect­ed.”