No Indians qualify for PNM safe seats?

Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-­­Bissessar says the People’s National Movement (PNM) is not truly representative of all the people, as not one East Indian was chosen to contest a PNM “safe seat”.

The Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) has selected former secretary general of the Communi­cation Workers’ Union (CWU) Clyde Elder to contest the La Brea seat, and OWTU vice-­president Ernesto Kesar to fight the Point Fortin seat under a United National Congress (UNC) ticket.

Asked how she would respond to criticisms that the UNC’s Coalition of Interests partners are alloca­ted what are perceived to be “PNM safe seats”, Persad-Bissessar said that seats are allocated based on whichever partner has a strategic advantage in that particular constituency.