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New­ly ap­point­ed Sen­a­tor and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing, Phillip Alexan­der, is chal­leng­ing the out­come of the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion re­sult in the Port of Spain North/St. Ann’s West con­stituen­cy, claim­ing that the of­fi­cial re­sults do not re­flect the will of the peo­ple.

Ac­cord­ing to the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC), for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young re­tained his seat with 7,243 votes. Alexan­der, who ran as the main chal­lenger for the Peo­ple's Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP), se­cured 2,597 votes—more than 4,600 votes be­hind the in­cum­bent.

De­spite the wide mar­gin, Alexan­der has pub­licly dis­put­ed the EBC’s fig­ures, claim­ing that he had ma­jor­i­ty sup­port among vot­ers in the con­stituen­cy.