Al­though Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Po­lit­i­cal Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has named her three deputy lead­ers to help steer the par­ty back in­to gov­ern­ment, po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed be­lieves on­ly a cat­a­stroph­ic fail­ure by the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion could al­low that.

“They must fall on them­selves, trip over them­selves con­sis­tent­ly, do the fool­ish­ness that would give the PNM very strong points for the PNM to re­turn as a re­al­ly strong vi­able force,” Mo­hammed told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day.

He ac­knowl­edged that it is still ear­ly in the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ (UNC) tenure but warned that the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion could mir­ror the 2021 To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly polls, which dealt the PNM a heavy loss.