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KAY-MARIE FLETCH­ER

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young has opt­ed out of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) in­ter­nal elec­tions card­ed for June 22nd, paving the way for Pen­ne­lope Beck­les to be­come po­lit­i­cal leader un­op­posed.

In a state­ment post­ed to so­cial me­dia yes­ter­day, Young said he does not be­lieve con­test­ing a po­si­tion in the par­ty’s ex­ec­u­tive is in the best in­ter­est of the par­ty at this junc­ture.