Patriotic Front Leader Mickela Panday said the PNM government’s relationship with their supporters could be described as an abusive one. She said her party, which was fielding 41 candidates, was an option for people who wanted to get away from that relationship.

Speaking to media after filing her nomination papers at Church Street, Chase Village, Carapichaima on April 4, Panday said, “If a man treated a woman the way the government and the PNM has treated its supporters, we would say it’s abusive. And then we asked people, 'Why, why, why are you going back? You have an option.'

"Well we ask women that too. You have an option, yes you have an option but you are dependent on this man, whether it is that you have children, whether it is financially, whether it is for housing, and it is the same thing manifesting itself in the politics of TT. Both parties do it. You make people dependent on you and you treat them like scum.”