The PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil has wast­ed no time get­ting bat­tle-ready for the next To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tion—screen­ing 17 nom­i­nees and con­firm­ing sev­en can­di­dates in one night.

Po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis said the process at John Di­al Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre on Wednes­day evening ran smooth­ly, and the cal­i­bre of ap­pli­cants left him high­ly im­pressed.

“We screened and we con­firmed sev­en can­di­dates in sev­en of the elec­toral dis­tricts. Screened a to­tal of about 17 nom­i­nees across those sev­en dis­tricts, and I’m quite hap­py and sat­is­fied with the qual­i­ty of the can­di­dates, es­pe­cial­ly some very vi­brant and ser­vice-ori­ent­ed young peo­ple,” Den­nis said.