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Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) political leader Watson Duke has finally broken months of silence on his political future to publicly declare his support for Chief Secretary Farley Augustine and the Tobago People’s Party (TPP). It is a dramatic turn for the man who once led the PDP to a historic landslide victory, only to watch the party collapse after a bitter fallout with Augustine himself.
Speaking at a media conference yesterday at the PDP’s Scarborough head office, Duke asked the handful of loyal supporters who remained with him—his “Spartans”—to rally behind Augustine ahead of the January 12 THA elections.
But while he announced his support, Duke refused to say what role the PDP would play in the upcoming race or whether the party would contest any seats at all. He offered no clarity on his own campaign and avoided all questions about whether the PDP is now operating as an informal arm of the TPP.
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