Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) stal­wart Fer­die Fer­reira has warned that the par­ty’s great­est mis­take was pan­ick­ing and se­lect­ing the wrong leader fol­low­ing its crush­ing 26-13 de­feat in Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

His re­marks came af­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Stu­art Young ten­dered their res­ig­na­tions as po­lit­i­cal leader and chair­man of the par­ty re­spec­tive­ly and news be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing that Ari­ma MP Pen­ne­lope Beck­les had re­ceived the ma­jor­i­ty sup­port of the MPs to be Op­po­si­tion Leader.

Fer­reira be­lieves Young should have been backed by the par­ty as op­po­si­tion leader.