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Sto­ries by Akash Sama­roo

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) launched a scathing at­tack on the In­de­pen­dent Sen­ate bench yes­ter­day, not on­ly ques­tion­ing their in­de­pen­dence but in­fer­ring that the Pres­i­dent, who has close PNM ties, placed them there to thwart the gov­ern­ment.

This came one day be­fore the Sen­ate was set to de­bate the con­tro­ver­sial Prime Min­is­ter’s Pen­sion (Amend­ment) Bill, 2025 which will ef­fec­tive­ly dis­qual­i­fy Stu­art Young from re­ceiv­ing a prime min­is­ter’s pen­sion for hav­ing failed to hold of­fice for at least one year.