Even in the de­spair of de­feat, the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front (PF) found joy in the down­fall of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), with its Po­lit­i­cal Leader Mick­ela Pan­day—daugh­ter of late for­mer prime min­is­ter and Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress founder Bas­deo Pan­day—ea­ger to see how the in­com­ing UNC coali­tion gov­ern­ment will de­liv­er on its promis­es.

Min­utes af­ter Pan­day con­ced­ed de­feat in her par­ty’s maid­en elec­toral bid, dozens of sup­port­ers at the par­ty’s San Fer­nan­do of­fice erupt­ed in cheers as they watched PNM leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley con­cede the elec­tion.

Some shout­ed, “It good for yuh!” and “PNM gone!”