Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) Gary Grif­fith says the is­sue of cam­paign fi­nanc­ing must be ur­gent­ly ad­dressed ahead of any fur­ther elec­tion in T&T.

Call­ing for a reg­u­la­to­ry frame­work to be put in place, he said there was cur­rent­ly no ac­count­abil­i­ty in terms of the “ob­scene” amount of mon­ey be­ing spent to fi­nance and pro­mote elec­tions in this coun­try.

Speak­ing with re­porters at the Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um, Mal­abar, Ari­ma, yes­ter­day af­ter­noon–fol­low­ing a day-long mo­tor­cade which be­gan in Diego Mar­tin–it was a sun­burnt Grif­fith who ad­mit­ted the is­sue had arisen dur­ing the cur­rent elec­tion prepa­ra­tion.