Op­po­si­tion Leader and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment po­lit­i­cal leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les last night con­grat­u­lat­ed the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty on se­cur­ing a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive term in of­fice fol­low­ing the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions.

In a so­cial me­dia post, Beck­les said, “Tonight’s To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions have re­turned the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty to of­fice for a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive term.”

She con­grat­u­lat­ed Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Chavez Au­gus­tine and those elect­ed, and re­flect­ed on vot­er par­tic­i­pa­tion in the polls. “On this oc­ca­sion, the low vot­er turnout speaks to the lev­el of pub­lic sat­is­fac­tion,” she said. “The PNM un­der­stands the ne­ces­si­ty of re­flec­tion as we work to­ward re­build­ing our par­ty and re­gain­ing the trust and con­fi­dence of the peo­ple.”