Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day is crit­i­cis­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s ap­proach to crime, ar­gu­ing that re­peat­ed States of Emer­gency do not amount to a na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty plan.

In a me­dia state­ment, Pan­day said that crime was a cen­tral is­sue in the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion cam­paign, dur­ing which the pop­u­la­tion was promised a com­pre­hen­sive an­ti-crime strat­e­gy. She ar­gued that the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion, led by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, has had suf­fi­cient time across mul­ti­ple terms in and out of of­fice to de­vel­op and im­ple­ment a clear plan.

She point­ed out that the Gov­ern­ment pre­vi­ous­ly held of­fice from 2010 to 2015, spent near­ly a decade in Op­po­si­tion, and has now re­turned to pow­er for a year, giv­ing it what she de­scribed as al­most six­teen years to study the crime sit­u­a­tion, con­sult ex­perts and de­liv­er so­lu­tions.