Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day yes­ter­day called on the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment to stop bul­ly­ing those they feel hold dif­fer­ing views from theirs.

She made the com­ment amid what she de­scribed as es­ca­lat­ing at­tacks on core de­mo­c­ra­t­ic in­sti­tu­tions, in­clud­ing the Pres­i­dent, In­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors, and the ju­di­cia­ry.

Pan­day yes­ter­day joined Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo, Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Wade Mark, the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and the Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go in de­fence of the in­di­vid­u­als who have been the tar­get of the UNC’s crit­i­cism in re­cent weeks.