One of the five so-called “dis­si­dents” with­in the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has not ruled out the pos­si­bil­i­ty of join­ing an­oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ty if he is not se­lect­ed to rep­re­sent his con­stituen­cy.

Ma­yaro MP Rush­ton Paray pre­sent­ed him­self for screen­ing on Mon­day night as the Op­po­si­tion con­tin­ued its se­lec­tion process for five elec­toral seats—Cou­va North, Cou­va South, Ca­roni Cen­tral, Ma­yaro, and Tu­na­puna.

Both in­cum­bents and as­pir­ing can­di­dates ar­rived at the UNC head­quar­ters in a fes­tive at­mos­phere. The event fea­tured tas­sa drum­mers, African drum­mers, moko jumbies, In­di­an and African dancers, and even cos­tumed Trans­form­ers, cre­at­ing a car­ni­val-like am­bi­ence.