For­mer tem­po­rary op­po­si­tion sen­a­tor Mar­sha Walk­er will con­test the Diego Mar­tin West seat for the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA).

In a joint me­dia con­fer­ence yes­ter­day with HOPE and CRN, the NTA of­fi­cial­ly an­nounced and con­firmed three ad­di­tion­al can­di­dates who will con­test the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion un­der the par­ty’s ban­ner.

Among the new­ly an­nounced are Savi­ta Pierre who moved from con­stituen­cy cus­to­di­an to can­di­date for Tu­na­puna, as well as Walk­er for Diego Mar­tin West, and Rus­sell Chan for Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral, both of whom re­cent­ly ten­dered their res­ig­na­tions from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) to join the NTA.