General secretary of the People’s National Movement (PNM) Foster Cummings yesterday denied he was controlling the Elections Supervisory Committee.

He defended the integrity of the PNM’s election process, saying that none of the incumbents (including him) had any control or influence over the election process.

Cummings said that the Elections Supervisory Committee was the same committee put in place by former political leader Dr Keith Rowley last November when the party had begun prepa­ring for an internal election, which was later cancelled.