There is a po­lit­i­cal toss-up in the Tabaquite con­stituen­cy, with the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ex­ec­u­tive re­ject­ing its prospec­tive can­di­date, Anil Ramjit, at the last minute, and the can­di­da­cy of in­cum­bent MP Ani­ta Haynes-Al­leyne, a so-called UNC dis­si­dent, up in the air as screen­ing is set for to­day.

Ques­tions sur­round­ing the rea­sons be­hind Ramjit’s re­moval re­main unan­swered af­ter he was side­lined by the par­ty on Mon­day. But all fin­gers point to the PNM’s Tabaquite con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive, who pulled sup­port from Ramjit at the last minute.

This was con­firmed by PNM’s gen­er­al sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings, who yes­ter­day told Guardian Me­dia that the Tabaquite con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive had a change of heart. He said the con­stituen­cy now has two weeks to present new nom­i­nees, push­ing back the com­ple­tion of the PNM’s screen­ing process. The par­ty has al­ready se­lect­ed 40 of its 41 can­di­dates.