Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) stal­warts are rais­ing alarm over the par­ty’s pro­pos­al to host its in­ter­nal elec­tions by the end of June, a move they say risks fur­ther desta­bil­is­ing the al­ready shak­en par­ty.

On Mon­day, in­ter­im chair­man Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly an­nounced that a spe­cial gen­er­al coun­cil meet­ing is sched­uled for Fri­day to fi­nalise the elec­tion date. The par­ty al­so in­tends to es­tab­lish an elec­tion su­per­vi­so­ry com­mit­tee to over­see the process.

All po­si­tions are ex­pect­ed to be con­test­ed, in­clud­ing po­lit­i­cal leader, chair­man, vice chair­man, la­dy vice chair­man, gen­er­al sec­re­tary, as­sis­tant gen­er­al sec­re­tary, and sev­er­al of­fi­cer roles. The slate al­so in­cludes three deputy po­lit­i­cal lead­ers ap­point­ed by the po­lit­i­cal leader, and one from To­ba­go.