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While Pa­tri­ot­ic Front Po­lit­i­cal Leader Mick­ela Pan­day is dou­bling down on her par­ty’s crit­i­cism of the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar-led Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) ad­min­is­tra­tion, call­ing it a dic­ta­tor­ship, po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts are ques­tion­ing the weight her crit­i­cism car­ries.

Pan­day’s lat­est re­marks came just one day af­ter she pub­licly ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of es­ca­lat­ing its as­saults on de­mo­c­ra­t­ic in­sti­tu­tions, in­clud­ing those tasked with main­tain­ing trans­paren­cy, jus­tice, and ac­count­abil­i­ty.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day out­side Par­lia­ment, Pan­day said she is deeply con­cerned by what she de­scribed as a dan­ger­ous ero­sion of con­sti­tu­tion­al safe­guards.