Commonwealth Election Observer Group (COG) chairperson and former Maltese Foreign Affairs minister Evarist Bartolo said the issue of campaign finance reform was raised with political parties prior to the election. He said the major political parties seemed to agree that it should not be on the parliamentary agenda.

He made the statement to media while presenting the group’s interim statement at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre on April 29.

“They said, ‘We are considering it, we took it to Parliament, there was the joint committee.’