The Pros And Cons Of The United National Congress

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KEVON FELMINE

Should the United National Congress (UNC) gained the upperhand in the local government elections, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is prepared to legally contest any unfair treatment by central Government.
Persad-Bissessar spoke outside the Hermitage Prebyterian Primary School today, where she voted for former deputy chairman of the Penal/Debe Regional Corporation Roland Hall who is contesting against the Peope's National Movement candidate Terrence Honore.
She said she said had made the point that the UNC was not in power and there would be challenges should central Government decide with withold funds from UNC run regional corporations. However, she said the Constitution mandates that Government is obligated to treat …show more content…

Firstly, the allocations have to be made to the various corporations, which ever party is in control and there would be some challenges if central government should decide to depress the release of those allocations to corporations.
"However, the overiding supreme law of our land is the Constitution and that Constitution provides for the equality of treatment to everyone, including other public authorities such as a municipal corporation, equal treament according to law, according to constitution, equality of treatment from a public authority, the public authority being central government. If we have to challenge it in the court, we will challenge it in the court." Persad-Bissessar said.
She said T&T has set a prescedence for breaking an election law. During last year's general elections, the Elections and Boundaries Commission extended voting by one hour due to the rain. It was then challenged by the losing UNC, who said the EBC did not have the power to extend the hours and asked the court to declared the election results in several seats null and void. Althought the courts found that there was insufficient evidence that the changes disadvantaged the UNC, it ruled that the EBC overstepped its boundaries with respect to changing the

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