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MOVEMENT for Social Justice (MSJ) head David Abdulah slammed both the UNC and PNM in his New Year's message on December 31. He said the PNM deserved to lose last April's general election and that the UNC in office had failed to change systems of top-down governance.

Branding 2025 a momentous year, with elections in TT and the US, he said the election of Donald Trump as US leader had resulted in Project 2025. He lamented "the ultra right-wing agenda to change that country based on white supremacy and the use of executive power to rewrite history."

He said, "In terms of international relations, this agenda is about imperialism on steroids in order to gain control over resources and to bully nations into concessions through unilaterally-imposed tariffs contrary to the World Trade Organisation rules; threats of visa revocations; the use of illegal sanctions; and military power – gunboat diplomacy."