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De­spite Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s as­sur­ance that both in­ter­na­tion­al and re­gion­al elec­tion ob­servers will be present for the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) says, as far as it is aware, on­ly Cari­com ob­servers have com­mit­ted to com­ing thus far.

Fol­low­ing a meet­ing be­tween the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) and sev­er­al UNC mem­bers yes­ter­day, the UNC’s Barataria/San Juan can­di­date, Sad­dam Ho­sein, said the Op­po­si­tion con­tin­ues to be deeply con­cerned and dis­sat­is­fied that with on­ly three weeks un­til the elec­tion, there’s been no con­fir­ma­tion from Gov­ern­ment that in­ter­na­tion­al ob­servers would be present on April 28.

Ho­sein told Guardian Me­dia his par­ty con­tin­ues to be con­cerned about the in­tegri­ty of Cari­com ob­servers, since the wife of for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Regi­nald Ar­mour is Cari­com’s as­sis­tant gen­er­al sec­re­tary.