Pa­tri­ot­ic Front (PF) leader Mick­ela Pan­day is be­ing chal­lenged by both the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) to pro­vide ev­i­dence back­ing her claims of ha­rass­ment and in­tim­i­da­tion di­rect­ed at her can­di­dates ahead of the up­com­ing Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Pan­day made the al­le­ga­tions on Sun­day, sug­gest­ing that the ha­rass­ment be­gan af­ter she an­nounced plans to con­test all seats. The Pa­tri­ot­ic Front field­ed can­di­dates for 37 out of 41 con­stituen­cies on nom­i­na­tion day, with the par­ty not con­test­ing the Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral, Diego Mar­tin West, Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West, and Point Fortin seats—each cur­rent­ly held by the PNM.

She claimed the po­lit­i­cal ha­rass­ment led to the prospec­tive can­di­dates for the seats drop­ping out be­cause of safe­ty con­cerns.