UNC leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says while many have questioned her leadership – mistaking her kindness for weakness – she believes effective leadership should revolve around love, care, empathy and emotional intelligence.

She highlighted the opposite of these traits coming from the PNM saying that party’s leadership has run a general election campaign that was the worst she has ever seen.

“The PNM has run an entire campaign based on negativity, unhappiness, smears and insults. In all my years (in politics) I have never seen any party run such a negative, insulting and abusive campaign.”