Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) can­di­date for La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro Fos­ter Cum­mings is ac­cus­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) of en­gag­ing in vot­er sup­pres­sion tac­tics in the lead-up to the Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Speak­ing at a meet­ing in his con­stituen­cy on Mon­day night, Cum­mings claimed the UNC has been pay­ing sub­stan­tial sums to so­cial me­dia in­flu­encers to dis­cour­age young peo­ple from vot­ing. He claimed in­flu­encers were be­ing paid as much as $10,000 per week in ex­change for post­ing an­ti-PNM con­tent.

Read­ing from a doc­u­ment, he said the con­tent is re­quired to in­clude the phrase “yel­low is the code” while crit­i­cis­ing the PNM and tar­get­ing Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young and for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley.