Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots leader Wat­son Duke is cau­tion­ing Prime Min­is­ter-des­ig­nate Stu­art Young not to get ahead of him­self, re­mind­ing him that he has yet to be of­fi­cial­ly ap­point­ed.

Speak­ing in a so­cial me­dia video, Duke took is­sue with Young’s re­cent re­marks at an in­ter­na­tion­al women’s event last week, where he pledged to strength­en do­mes­tic vi­o­lence laws once he as­sumes of­fice. He sug­gest­ed that Young’s state­ment in­di­rect­ly un­der­mines the work of his pre­de­ces­sor, Dr Kei­th Row­ley, who has served as Prime Min­is­ter for the past decade.

Duke warned Young to choose his words wise­ly, cau­tion­ing that pre­ma­ture promis­es and talk of new reg­u­la­tions could weak­en his lead­er­ship be­fore he even takes of­fice.