JENNIFER Baptiste-Primus, PNM deputy political leader for party and election matters, says not only will the PNM recover lost ground, but it has to prepare itself for governance, so certain is she in the leadership of PNM political leader Pennelope Beckles.

Baptiste-Primus said she is comforted that 102,000 people chose not to vote in the April 28 general election rather than vote for the United National Congress (UNC). The People’s National Movement (PNM) won 13 seats but lost the election to the UNC, which won 26.

“They stayed home, withheld their votes and we paid the ultimate price. But the fact they did not vote for Kamla (Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar) it means we can go to them, we can admit we made certain mistakes, we can tell them we intend to do better and start the healing within the party.